Ansel Elgort Quotes

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

When you take on an acting or dancing role, you have to trust your director, and in some ways there is freedom in relinquishing control.