Shanola Hampton Quotes

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I'm an actor of the theater.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I do my best creating on stage.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

I think theater is more about living and breathing, versus TV, which can vary.

I love dancing but acting is a passion.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

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.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

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

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

There's no business like show business.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.