Katie Lowes Quotes

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I do my best creating on stage.

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

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I think acting is a gift.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

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

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

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

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.

I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

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

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'