Patti LuPone Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

I'm an actor, and my main purpose is to bring out interesting stories to life. If it involves a cause that I can be a part of, I most definitely will.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.