Paget Brewster Quotes

'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.

I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

I do a little improv in my shows. Kind of like our movie, I'll do beats and ideas of dialogue, but I think there's less pressure because it's a live show. If you mess up, the audience laughs because we don't really know what we're doing. But as far as shooting, that was very scary, trying to make a point and drive the film. It definitely helped improvising.