Bruce Beresford Quotes

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

You'd need to polish your skills as you only get one chance. In cinema, retakes are possible but in theatre, there are none.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

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 enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

Acting is the way I make my living.

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.

Acting is a youthful profession.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

I do my best creating on stage.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I really love live performing!

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.