Eric Idle Quotes

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had... we just had a great time.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

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.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

I just love working with actors in general.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

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

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.