Alan Tudyk Quotes

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I've always loved acting but never thought I could do theatre because I got the worst stage fright ever.

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

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!'

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

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

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together. And we did that, and it was really fun, and we kinda did commercials, and it kinda took off from there. It was great; it's what I love.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

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.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.