Character Quote by Kevin Spacey

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most…

— Michael Shannon

Appearing in a play night after night is a Herculean task. But it's like a muscle, and you develop it.

— Tara Fitzgerald

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing…

— Jesse Eisenberg

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set…

— Ewan McGregor

With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle…

— Eve Myles

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on…

— Jack Handey

For me, playing characters is always about an energy and feeling it in your body. That's when I know that the character arrived.

— Sian Clifford

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be…

— Roger Allam

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

— David Ives

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place.…

— Mercedes Ruehl

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington