Rupert Evans Quotes

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

My preference will always be theatre because it's where my heart lies and it's what I started with and eventually I want to direct it. It's where my real interest is. But I just love trying out new stuff. Acting for me isn't just for me about being in front of a camera ... it's so much more than that. It's always about telling a story and there are so many ways of doing that, so I'll always want to try something else.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

I do my best creating on stage.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

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.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

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

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.