Callan McAuliffe Quotes

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

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.

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.