Tracie Thoms Quotes

The stage is my first love.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It's just you out there with no rope. You can't call time out; you're on a roller coaster.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

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

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

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

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

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.