Jonathan Tucker Quotes

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

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.

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.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I have such a passion for theatre.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Theatre was always my passion.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.