Guy Davenport Quotes

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.

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.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I'll always go back to the stage.

All the world's a stage.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

Actors always have opinions.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.