Theatre Quotes · Page 10

I'm not a crisis actor.

— Anonymous

I'm not a fan of drama.

— Johanna Konta

Making up drama for attention is low.

— Anonymous

I have spent more time on stage than at home.

— Y. G. Mahendran

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio

— Eli Wallach

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

— Nick Wechsler

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

— Ednita Nazario

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

— Thornton Wilder

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

— Johnny Knoxville

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”

— Abbie Hoffman

The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take.

— Judd Nelson

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

— Elizabeth Banks

Actors are the most insecure and fragile people on this planet.

— Arshad Warsi

I can't think of anything more exciting than trying to be an actor.

— Leslie Howard

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

— Krysten Ritter

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

— Grace Cavalieri

I think it's important for me to do both stage and screen and if I get the opportunity that's great.

— Tara Fitzgerald

Truthfully, I wish I had a daily routine. It's hard being an actor because you never have a set schedule.

— Jacqui Holland

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

— Sean Penn

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and…

— Gregg Sulkin

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece…

— John Kander

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other…

— Shannyn Sossamon

The biggest danger is that actors become entirely too dependent on the idea of training. They think that if they continue to…

— Titus Welliver

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director…

— James Toback

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of…

— Pauly Shore

Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don't like the idea of opening in New…

— Jamey Sheridan

Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world…

— Michaela Coel

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am…

— Robert Powell

“The Playwright had long been fascinated by the strange mercurial personality of the Actor. What is "acting." and why do we respond…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's a great challenge to me, playing someone who is supposed to be absolutely normal and not remarkable and contemporary and yet…

— Nicholas Hammond

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that…

— Colin Hanks

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

— Harrison Ford

Good drama must be drastic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Happy people are just very talented actors.

— Nikhil Saluja

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

— Marian Seldes

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

— Matthew Lewis

I'm not an actor. I'm a personality.

— Fred MacMurray