Amy Bloom Quotes

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

In live stage, the actor lives.

I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

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

Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

You can only do so much theatre.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.