Michelle MacLaren Quotes

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

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

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

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

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

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.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

I can't act without music very well.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

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

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.