Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Acting takes so much energy.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

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.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.