Haylie Duff Quotes

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

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.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Acting to me is always reacting.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

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.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.