Dennis Christopher Quotes

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 love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

Theatre is an actor's medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

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.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.