LaChanze Quotes

I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I love doing both theater and television.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder.