Pete Townshend Quotes

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

Television is hard work. It's all hard work. Theatre is hard work. I tell you, I have bruises from changing backstage. Those quick changes are really difficult.

Theatre has taught me a lot, and I am sure there will be a lot to learn.

Acting is my first love and I want to stick to it. But I would be happy to offer my inputs to a script, if asked.

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge.

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.

Theatre has been a part of my education as much as anything else.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.