Inspiration Born of Passion

“Talent is not enough”
- Sir Laurence Olivier

“There are two men (people) inside the artist,
the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet.
One becomes a craftsman”.
- Emile Zola

“An actor is an athlete of the heart. He hopefully sees his entire body as an instrument through which human stories are told and recognizes the need … to keep training not only his emotional life, but his body, his voice, his tongue and his mind to be in tune, poised and free for the sometimes enormous task of being a vessel through which stories of great power and truth can be told, particularly on stage where the opportunity for numerous takes just isn’t there.

He…needs to consciously relax...be in touch with his wonders and his flaws…and be willing to share them…to serve the play.”
- Ivy Omere

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
- Oscar Wilde

“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. “
- Stella Adler

"Study… get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman

“So, let’s play…”