Austin Peck Quotes

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It's really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird immediacy that's, for me, really invigorating, and it just feels really rewarding.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

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.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

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

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.