Moss Hart Quotes

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

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

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

The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I played comedies and dramas.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

I would love to do some theater.

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

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

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

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

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

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.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition.

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

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.