Jane Krakowski Quotes

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 love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

I like everything about acting.

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

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I love this acting stuff.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

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.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.