Teri Garr Quotes

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

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

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.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I played comedies and dramas.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

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

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'