Genevieve O'Reilly Quotes

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

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

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

I thought 'The Humans' was a beautiful play.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

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.

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.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

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'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.