T. D. Jakes Quotes

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

Show business is my life.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

I would be onstage all the time if I could.

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

The stage calls my name.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

While I am open to good offers when they come by, I have found my calling in theatre.

I love being on stage, nothing compares to it.

I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It's the 'nasha' of performance that I enjoy. It's my calling, and I'm blessed to be able to do that for a living.

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I always loved performing and being on stage.