Zawe Ashton Quotes

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

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

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

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Acting is my job.

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

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

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to 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.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

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

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 would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

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

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

Theatre has taught me a lot, and I am sure there will be a lot to learn.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

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 expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.