Paul Newman Quotes

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I would love to do some theater.

I'd love to do more theater.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I've always been entranced with theater.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

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.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.