Steven Knight Quotes

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I do my best creating on stage.

I started out doing musicals.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most about how to act. Something I discover every time I'm doing one is how little I know about acting - how important the art of listening is, and how important it is to listen with your entire body. You can tell so much of a story with stillness, and a lot of that can be from really actively listening to your scene partner.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I'm a dramatist.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

A play is a passion.

I'm a performer.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I love performing.

I love the stage.

I love to entertain an audience.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

I'd like to do a play in New York.