Robert Knepper Quotes

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

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.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

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.