Aaron Sorkin Quotes

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.

I'm a dramatist.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

I would totally love to do theater.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

My father had a lot to do with me thinking about acting, though he never saw me act. He passed away probably - he passed away as I was doing my first play, but I just think being exposed to it and being around it. It wasn't something that I ever thought I couldn't do because I grew up around it.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything