Marianne Elliott Quotes

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.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

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.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.