Saoirse Ronan Quotes

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

I'd like to do a play in New York.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I got into theater at an early age.

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.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I'd love to do some theater.

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

I love working in New York theater.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.