Asrani Quotes

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.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I played comedies and dramas.

Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

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

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

In live stage, the actor lives.

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.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

When I'm singing, I can see so many people, and I can see their response and everything. And being somewhere like the Hollywood Bowl, I'm seeing those immediate people in front of me, but other than that, it's just dots, and I'm just imagining who's out there and imagining their responses.

I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.