Taron Egerton Quotes

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

When I went to Yale, I thought it would be like in Stenford 24 hours a day. Robert Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and founder of the Yale Repertory Theater was there, and we did all this very serious - I would go so far as to say completely humorless - Eastern European drama, as well as August Strindberg, and Henrik Ibsen, we weren't allowed to do William Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. I was not in the right place.

I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.