Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.

I love to act.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

I think my natural home was always the stage.

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

I will say I miss teaching improv way more than I miss performing improv.

I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.

All my vocal coaches have been pretty great. Thank God.

I love just a stage.