Matt Smith Quotes

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

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

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I've always been entranced with theater.

As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt completely at home. I remember feeling a genuine wave of happiness and of feeling complete.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.