Marianne Elliott Quotes

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

Acting is happy agony.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

My experience of performing in Gurgaon has been very satisfying.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?