Katherine Kelly Quotes

I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

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 do my best creating on stage.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

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.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

During theatre, I had never faced problems with my lines and I was very proud of myself.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.

Televison is time bound. Whereas a movie has time. You can't write a script for television and keep it for one year.

The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'