Joey Soloway Quotes

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.