Poonam Dhillon Quotes

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.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

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

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.

For me, acting is doing.

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.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I do my best creating on stage.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I love performing.

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.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.