Jeffrey DeMunn Quotes

I started out doing musicals.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

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

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

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

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

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

I think acting is a gift.

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

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.

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.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.