Patrick J. Adams Quotes

I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

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.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

For me, it's always the script. The script which gives me the chance to do something new; that has been my prime objective ever since I started acting. There's nothing else that excites me more than that.

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

Acting is something I've always loved and enjoyed.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.