Stephen Colbert Quotes

Acting takes so much energy.

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home.

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

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.

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

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

An actor has to embody a role.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Acting was my first love before music.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.