Sean Patrick Thomas Quotes

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

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.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

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.

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

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.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.

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

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

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.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting is a mysterious process.