Sid Haig Quotes

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

I used to do theatre in school and college. When I started working on television, only the camera was new. Theatre experience really helps one lose inhibitions.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

The time and preparation before a play is something I really value, and it's something I learned in New York.

Do as much theatre as you can while you're at school.

I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.

I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.

I studied drama.