Kim Young-ha Quotes

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

I trained in the theatre.

Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but I didn't like the look of how many files the lawyer I was working with had to take home every night. It looked like a hideous amount of work, when actors were having nice lunches and discussing books.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

I've always wanted to get into theatre.

The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Acting is the way I make my living.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

Acting is my job.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

I have such a passion for theatre.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.