Philip Glass Quotes

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

Plays have to be made, and we have to find a way to make them. All of us.

I love working in the theater.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.