Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

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

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

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

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

Class clowns become actors.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I played comedies and dramas.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'