Kevin Durand Quotes

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had... we just had a great time.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I went to drama school in Scotland.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.