Tom Stoppard Quotes

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.

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

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

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

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.