Eric McCormack Quotes

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

The stage calls my name.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

The stage is my first love.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I always want to be an actress.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

I used to like doing school plays.

I really love theatre, as that is where I started out.

My best work happened on the stage.

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.