Clotilde Hesme Quotes

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.

From the moment I saw 'Camelot' as a kid, the organic inclination of performing before a live audience is raw and visceral. Once you're out there, there's no yelling 'Cut!' or any such thing as a do-over because that moment has passed, and you're in it as it's happened and gone, sharing it with everyone.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

Local casting is just something I love doing.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

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.