Morgan Saylor Quotes

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Acting takes so much energy.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

Acting is always hard.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

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.

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.