Robert Lepage Quotes

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or TV set, most of the storytelling happens in the editing, whereas when you're doing a play, the storytelling is in your hands as an actor.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

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

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

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

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.