Scott Bakula Quotes

I do my best creating on stage.

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

I think acting is a gift.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

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.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

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.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I love theater. I really want to go back to it.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.