Katie Lowes Quotes

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.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

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.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

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.

I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.

You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

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.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.