Lillete Dubey Quotes

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

Actors are investigators.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

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

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

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.