Malcolm Gets Quotes

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

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.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

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

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Acting is a mysterious process.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.