Lillie Langtry Quotes

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

The stage is my first love.

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

I did work hard at auditions, and three years at RADA isn't like a walk in the park. And then it takes a lot of sacrifices, giving certain things up in order to audition, in order to do a play, whatever it may be.

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that whether or not I can hang out, I've always been the one to go in my room and chill.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

I didn't see my son the entire time I did 'Dancing With the Stars.' The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day - 40 to 50 hours a week.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

We really can't go out and party every night like a lot of bands do - we have to keep our voices right for the show. It's a bummer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to live the dream.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

I toured. I played, I was in that world so intensely, and then I had to bow out.

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

I don't do much relaxing. When I'm not giving a recital I practise.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.