Elizabeth Reaser Quotes

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.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

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 loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

That's what I really focused on in school - straight drama - and I would love to get an opportunity to do that.

I've loved acting since I can remember.

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I love working with great actors.

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.