George MacKay Quotes

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

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

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

I do my best creating on stage.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

A play is a passion.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

I think acting is a gift.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

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

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

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

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

I'm a drama guy.

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.