David Bryan Quotes

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

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

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

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

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

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

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

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

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.