Francois Arnaud Quotes

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

A play is a passion.

I played comedies and dramas.

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

I love to act.

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

I miss doing a straight play.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.