Monica Vitti Quotes

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

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

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

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

Acting meant so much to me.

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

The stage is my first love.

I just love acting.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.