Rachel Riley Quotes

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

I'm going to call WWE like I call everything. Yes, I'm going to be passionate. Yes, I'm going to be excited, but at the same time, I'm hoping to get better as a storyteller, and I'm hoping to complement the people I work with who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it and build it into something bigger.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

I'm a storyteller. I'm always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to write the story I believe in, I will write it. If I've been offered to act in a story that I truly believe in, I will happily do that, but I'm a storyteller. That's something I'm so thankful for.