Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I think there is no world without theatre.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

I just want to keep people entertained.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I do my best creating on stage.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.