I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV…

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

— Dwayne Johnson

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than…

— Oliver

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never…

— Randy Newman

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as…

— Tina Fey

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third…

— Harold Ramis

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer…

— Tatiana Maslany

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my…

— Norman Lear

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Angie Harmon

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part…

— Sam Shepard

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

— Richard Simmons

“Life is not a one act play”

— Alex M. Smith

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much…

— Dylan O'Brien