"I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance"
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The line also reads as a quiet rebuttal to the assumptions that follow a career built on image. As a model, Hall's public persona is often treated as fixed: a look, a pose, a brand. Theater offers the opposite value system. A character "grows and develops with every performance" suggests permission to be unfinished, to revise, to fail in public and improve tomorrow. That's a creative freedom modeling rarely grants, where the camera freezes you into a single authoritative moment.
Subtext: control. Modeling can make you the subject of other people's choices (photographers, editors, consumers). Theater, even inside a director's vision, returns a kind of authorship through repetition. Each performance is another chance to calibrate intention, rhythm, vulnerability. Hall's "so much" is doing cultural work too, insisting on sincerity and labor in a space that often expects glamour to be effortless. It is a statement about wanting to be taken seriously, but on terms that feel alive rather than curated.
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"I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-doing-theater-so-much-being-in-front-of-112275/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

