Ruth Reichl Quotes

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

In 'Finding Nemo,' all of the voices were recorded separate - so I would be in a sound booth in a studio by myself reading the lines with just the director. Basically, you can just come in, and it doesn't matter what you are wearing or what you look like; it is all about how your voice sounds.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.