Theatre Quotes · Page 117

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

— Michael Shurtleff

Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.

— Tom Burke

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

— Adrian Lewis

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

— Brett Gelman

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

— Kit Harington

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

An actor's life pretty much goes hand in hand with negative feelings like insecurity, envy and self-doubt.

— Arjun Mathur

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll…

— Matt LeBlanc

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also…

— Vin Diesel

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long…

— Joan Collins

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so…

— Adam Rapp

It's really rich territory for me as an actor to have somebody who has such a long way to go, but he's…

— Phil Dunster

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the…

— Nick Offerman

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new…

— Natasha Tsakos

The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the…

— Larry Cohen

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the…

— Matthew Rhys

At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor.…

— Khleo

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and…

— Katie Leung

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even…

— William Boyd

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

— Vivien Leigh

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm not married to an actor. I'd never make that mistake again.

— Patti D'Arbanville

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

— Michael Portillo

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

“He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.”

— Gordon Highland

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

— David Walton

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

— Ken Stott

“You don't have to know me, to read my drama-story.”

— Shin Haido

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

— Sayani Gupta

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

— Thia Megia

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

— Paul Virilio