Ben Hardy Quotes

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'

I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

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

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but my agents talked me into it and said it's nice, steady work.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.