Craig Revel Horwood Quotes

I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I can't act without music very well.

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.

Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.

To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.