Theatre Quotes · Page 128

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

— Omari Hardwick

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

— Thayer David

I am more comfortable in the actor's and writer's role than a director's.

— Sreenivasan

I have actor's dreams where I am opening a play and know neither the lines nor the story.

— Maureen Lipman

All eyes on me while I'm on stage, Let's take over the world like pinky and the brain.

— Kid Ink

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

— Al Pacino

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

— Bill Oberst Jr

As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'

— Kathryn Newton

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way…

— Michael Imperioli

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera,"…

— Jamie Foxx

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

— Melissa Leo

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

— Sam Levinson

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I…

— Christian Slater

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny…

— Karl Rove

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

— Clive Owen

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have…

— Emilia Clarke

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an…

— Christopher Meloni

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I…

— Bridget Regan

I started out on the stage, then I had a great career in television for quite a few years. The good news…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I always wanted to be an actor and my parents were happy with my decision. But that happened later. They were apprehensive…

— Jasmin Bhasin

There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to…

— Anthony Edwards

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human…

— Eleanor Catton

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up…

— Matthew Macfadyen

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and…

— Stephen Karam

“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.”

— Alan Moore

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

— Kevin Macdonald

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

— Sylvester Stallone

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

— Francesca Annis

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

— Alan Alda

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

As an actor, I don't believe I am working my full potential in television.

— Mohnish Bahl

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

— Lady Gaga

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

— Rachel Weisz

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

— Germaine Greer

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

— Danny Huston

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

— Max Casella

As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.

— Finn Wittrock

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

— Luke Mitchell

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

— John Gielgud