Raymond Cruz Quotes

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.

To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.

I come from theatre, and I feel like I have to go back to it every few years because it's like nourishment for the soul. And, as an actor, it's the place you have most control: no one cuts or edits you, and you get to tell the story each night.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

The theatre always felt like home, and it does to this day. When I do screen acting, I miss telling a story from beginning to end, as you do nightly on stage. I love that relationship with the audience and how it changes each night.

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.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.