Katherine Moennig Quotes

I do my best creating on stage.

'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.

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

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

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 was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

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

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.