Joseph Fiennes Quotes

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.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

After watching 'Peepshow,' people always say to me that it was more than what they expected. It is so much more than a musical. It has a lot of energy and is fast-paced. You are entertained the whole time watching it. One guy from Germany watched 'Peepshow' every single day for the whole week he was in Vegas.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.

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

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.

Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

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

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

I grew up doing musical theater.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.