Werner Klemperer Quotes

I would audition for all the school plays, and finally, my last year, I got the role as Pinocchio - finally.

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I just like to act.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I'd love to do some new plays.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

I played comedies and dramas.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

I'm most at home on the stage.