David Antin Quotes

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

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

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

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.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

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

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.