Colin Donnell Quotes

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I don't care much about acting.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

As an actor, I love challenges.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

This acting was very hard work.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Nobody is a perfect actor.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'