Ben Platt Quotes

Money is not a driving force for me when it comes to my passion: that is, dramas and films.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!

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've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.