Sada Thompson Quotes

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.