Theatre Quotes · Page 123

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

— Rockmond Dunbar

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

— Jack Nicholson

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

— Alan Clark

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

— Anthony Warlow

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

— Adrien Brody

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

— Stephanie Szostak

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

— Yancy Butler

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

— Cillian Murphy

If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and…

— Shabana Azmi

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or…

— Tahar Rahim

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums…

— John Petrucci

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can…

— Doug Liman

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol

Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with…

— Joan Rivers

Maybe because I am an actor-casting director, I always felt that we need good actors in the industry and we need to…

— Abhishek Banerjee

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when…

— Wayne Rogers

At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course…

— Penelope Mitchell

Woodie King Jr., in 1970, had started a company called the New Federal Theatre, which was ensconced at the Henry Street Settlement.…

— LaTanya Richardson

My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where…

— Haris Pasovic

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead…

— Bob Dylan

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.…

— Alexander Koch

I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then,…

— Morfydd Clark

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the…

— Neil Gaiman

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only…

— Zoe Kazan

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

— Jane Levy

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

— David Whyte

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

— Michael Horse

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

— Maxim Gorky

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

— David Morse

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

— John Ratzenberger

Nobody aspired to be an actor where I came from and I didn't think I would get in anywhere.

— Douglas Henshall

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

— Obie Trice

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

— Paul Dano

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

— Kevin Bacon

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

— Bruce Forsyth

The thing I love about being on stage is I can do whatever I want.

— Sigrid

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

— Danny McBride

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

— Mohanlal

I studied science. And I had a group of friends who were heavily into music and theatre.

— Mohit Chauhan