Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Acting and singing are integrally locked together.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

I want to act, perform in my own way.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

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.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I think acting is a gift.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Acting is a mysterious process.