Timothy Simons Quotes

When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.

I love working in the theater.

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

My job stays the same, whether we're acting by candlelight, against a green screen, or on a stage somewhere. Which is just as well, because I really couldn't do anything else.

I've enjoyed lots of productions, and it's always been down to the actors I've been working with.

I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

I've always wanted to get into theatre.

Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.

I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.

What I love about working on 'Younger' is that it combines some of my favorite elements of both theatre and film.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

I admire anyone who does stage all their life. It's so tough, and it also made me really appreciate how lucky I am with film. You have to do your own makeup with stage, and you have to do so many un-glamorous things.

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and over about 30 times. Live theatre is that one time and one time only.

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

I enjoy acting, and I would love to do a play in the future.

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a lot of people that have to do a lot of things exactly right for anything that I do to matter at all.