Theatre Quotes · Page 140

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

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

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

— Kathryn Newton

“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

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

— Bill Oberst Jr

In making YouTube videos, you can't just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.

— Ryan Higa

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the…

— Tatiana Maslany

When I do interviews about movies I direct, I often talk about how my superpower as a director is that I'm an…

— Marielle Heller

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

— Debra Wilson

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

— James McAvoy

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

— Rob Lowe

My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter…

— Daniel Radcliffe

This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do…

— Donal Logue

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you…

— Aaron Zigman

I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also…

— Ian Mckellen

The most exciting thing about joining EastEnders' is not only that I'll be back on the television, but I'll also be working…

— Christopher Timothy

I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny.…

— Vsevolod Meyerhold

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going…

— Andrew Buchan

Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know…

— Kate O'Mara

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and…

— Hallie Flanagan

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

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Kim Cattrall

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

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

— Ashley Bell

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

— Max Casella

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

— Mohnish Bahl

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

— Rachel Weisz

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

— Lady Gaga

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

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

— Finn Wittrock

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

— Miranda Otto

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

— John Gielgud

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

— Luke Mitchell

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

— Jared Gilman