A Quote by Laurence Fishburne

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

Laurence Fishburne

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Actor Because First Foremost Love Return Stage

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Laurence Fishburne
American - Actor
Born: July 30, 1961

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

Himani Shivpuri

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

Wayne Brady

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

Lou Diamond Phillips

My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.

Sean Bean

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Derek Magyar

You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

Janina Gavankar

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

Glynn Turman

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

Michael Ball

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

Ira Sachs

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

Cole Hauser

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

Peter Krause

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

Theodore Bikel

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

Tom Riley

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

Chris Eigeman

If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.