Tyler Joseph Quotes

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

I really love live performing!

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

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.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

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.

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.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

I do my best creating on stage.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.