Richard Madden Quotes

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to say film or television can't be hard or challenging; it's emotional to do the same thing over and over and over. But in terms of stamina, there is nothing like an eight-show week to separate the men from the boys.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.