Sean Combs Quotes

Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Acting is very immediate.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

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

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I played comedies and dramas.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

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

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

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