Tim Minchin Quotes

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.

I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.