Riley Smith Quotes

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

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.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

In the case of 'Jack Ryan,' it was a huge collaboration, and I enjoyed it very much, and most of all, I want the audience to enjoy it, too. I want them to feel immersed in this world.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I would love to branch out a little bit and... do a Judd Apatow type of movie. It just looks like it's so much fun.

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.