Diana Rigg Quotes

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

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.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

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

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

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

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

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

I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

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

Drama - what literature does at night.