Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone feeding me the text. But I can get by in the theatre if I study hard for a couple of months.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.