Troy Donahue Quotes

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

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

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's pretty much something I can't resist.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.