Gregory Hines Quotes

I'm most at home on the stage.

I've always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

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

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

In live stage, the actor lives.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

I think my natural home was always the stage.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

I love to perform. I love live shows.

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

I think I'd really enjoy doing some more theatre, because that's where I started off.

If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.