Rachel Weisz Quotes

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

I love working with talented young performers.

I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other's lives. I'm slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

I started doing community theater when I was seven and I think the intent was just expression. When you're a musician, you can make music in your room, and when you're a writer, you can write. Acting is one of the tricky art forms where you need a certain amount of permission to be able to do it. You can talk to yourself in the mirror, but it's different than actually acting or doing a scene. You need an audience and you need someone else to do it with.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.