Theatre Quotes · Page 101

I think you're blaming the actors for being in bad movies, and that isn't fair.

— Tom Arnold

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.

— Clive Owen

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

— Mathieu Amalric

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

— Francesca Annis

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.

— Raza Jaffrey

I love sitting back and laughing at people who are so caught up in pointless drama.

— Anonymous

I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

— Steve Antin

People who are graduated and still stuck in high school drama really need a reality check.

— Anonymous

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the…

— Jaime Camil

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television,…

— Blair Underwood

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

— Zeljko Ivanek

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

— Timothy Olyphant

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

— Tony Kushner

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open,…

— Lynn Nottage

I always say the difference between a nickname and a stage name is you don't get to give yourself your nickname.

— Jelly Roll

I'm not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and…

— Ishaan Khatter

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like…

— Jude Law

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre…

— Stephen Daldry

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like…

— Viola Davis

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love…

— Joe Morton

Some people have this really clear memory of making that decision, and I don't. My earliest memories of being involved with drama…

— Jai Courtney

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set…

— Kate Winslet

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles…

— Julianne Moore

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

— Annie Parisse

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

— Lacey Chabert

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

— Mark Kurlansky

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

— Creed Bratton

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

— Brendan Sexton III

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

— Michael Keaton

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

— John Leguizamo

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

— Orlando Bloom

I've wanted to be an actor since I was six, and I'm going to be an actor until I'm 66.

— Louise Linton

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

— Sanam Saeed

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

— Toks Olagundoye

I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

— Taissa Farmiga

“If the world insists on being cruel, steal the stage, and make it your own.”

— Paul Glyph