Charles Keating Quotes

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

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 enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

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.

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

Acting is something I love.

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've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

I prefer stage work, as an actor.

What's great about having the live audience is you know immediately if you're funny or not. That always helped when we were doing 'Hannah Montana;' it teaches you if something worked or didn't.

If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.

I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

I played a wide variety of roles.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.