Ato Essandoh Quotes

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I know that I have the ability to keep a play alive.

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

I do my best creating on stage.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.