Tom Stoppard Quotes

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I feel that I am a good actor.

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

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.