Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I'm a dramatist.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

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

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

I'm supposed to make plays.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

I love working with great actors.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.