Theatre Quotes · Page 130

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

— Alexander Woollcott

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

— Maika Monroe

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

— Carla Gugino

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

— Kim Basinger

Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.

— Zachary Quinto

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

— Joe Cole

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

— Jo Brand

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

— Sarah Ruhl

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around…

— Kelly Blatz

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing…

— Alan Ruck

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English…

— Tony Harrison

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -…

— Mark Ruffalo

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first…

— Gina Bellman

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that…

— Julia Loktev

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the…

— Andrea Riseborough

For so many years I wanted to tell stories and be an actor. So, the moment I started to get paid to…

— Fred Hechinger

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of…

— Al Pacino

The thing is, as an actor, I get bored a little bit. I love to act. And between action and cuts, when…

— Vincent Cassel

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

“...behind the scene, under the surface of reality, you are all actors, marvelously skilled at playing parts and in getting lost in…

— Alan Watts

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff,…

— Fred Melamed

I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I…

— Paul Walker

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

— Steve Kazee

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

— Harry Houdini

I think I was always interested in acting... I think it's always been there.

— Taylor Russell

It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.

— Ekta Kapoor

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.

— Mukesh Tiwari

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

— Minka Kelly

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

— Rainn Wilson

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

— Christine and the Queens

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

— Sydney Pollack

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

— Anton Chekhov

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

— Tadashi Suzuki

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

— Tom Hiddleston

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

— James Purefoy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

I believe every actor gets some chance or the other to show his capability.

— Govinda