Lily Rabe Quotes

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

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

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

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

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.