M. S. Narayana Quotes

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

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.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

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

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.