Maya Hawke Quotes

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

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

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

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

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.