Michael Douglas Quotes

Being an entertainer, I want to play the role both of a villain and a hero.

I do play villains.

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

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

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'd love to do some new plays.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I'm a total performer.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

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

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

Acting was my first love before music.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

The stage is my first love.