Eddie Redmayne Quotes

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

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

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I think acting is a gift.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.