Yul Vazquez Quotes

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

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

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

I prefer stage work, as an actor.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

I'd love to play Constance in 'King John' or Paulina in 'The Winter's Tale.' I'd like to go on working till I drop.

You'd need to polish your skills as you only get one chance. In cinema, retakes are possible but in theatre, there are none.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.