Hugh Skinner Quotes

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.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.

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.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

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.

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

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'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

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.