“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”

Jeremy Strong

“In theater when you do a comedy, you rehearse for a few weeks and you begin to feel the rhythm. In film it's an arbitrary rhythm usually that has to look like a truthful one to work.”
Austin Pendleton

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”
Diego Luna

“I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies.”
Amanda Plummer

“Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.”
Lesley Manville