Sebastian Stan Quotes

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

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'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

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

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I can't act without music very well.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

I have no interest in watching myself act.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

Acting is a sport to me, I enjoy being in the ring and playing it.