Sylvie Guillem Quotes

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

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

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

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

I played comedies and dramas.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

The stage is my first love.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I'm a drama guy.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

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

I used to like doing school plays.

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

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people.

I loved plays in school.

I was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!

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