Justine Bateman Quotes

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.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind of play. It is such a vulnerable place for any actor to be in.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

I learned how to act working in TV.

As an actress who has performed in theater for over 17 years, my experience performing in 'The Color Purple' has been a truly life-changing journey.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

The experience with 'The Knick' is a singular experience. That experience taught me a lot about acting and about being on camera for extended periods of time to try to create a character arc that travels.

I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.

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

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.