Samira Wiley Quotes

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

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

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

You just have to play the character.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I played comedies and dramas.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.