Loretta Swit Quotes

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.

I have a passion to do theater.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I was heavily involved in musical theater.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

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

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.