Robert Lepage Quotes

I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

I want to delve into the world of performing.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

I only know how to write musicals.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.