Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

An actor has to embody a role.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

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 became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I can't act without music very well.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I enjoy working on stage. Having relationships with the audiences and question and answer sessions afterwards. I enjoy that.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

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.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.