Eliza Doolittle Quotes

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

But theatre is always a difficult experience.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.