Dan Amboyer Quotes

I just love the process of working with other actors.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

I love working with great actors.

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.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

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

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

I love the process of working on a play. I love rehearsal so much. New York can be so tough, but the community in the theater is so warm and glorious.

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

Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn't have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.