Shannon Purser Quotes

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play 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.

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

I love acting and the whole idea of being in front of the camera.

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

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.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Acting is what happens on the way.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

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