Theatre Quotes · Page 143

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

— Christine and the Queens

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

— Tadashi Suzuki

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

— James Purefoy

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

— Tom Hiddleston

Like most actors, I'm quite shy, so I liked being other people.

— Rebecca Front

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

— Govinda

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

— William Dean Howells

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

— Iris Murdoch

I don't believe in competing with other actors. I believe the only person you can compete is with yourself. You can only…

— Vivek Oberoi

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and…

— Vanessa Kirby

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

— Brooke Elliott

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The…

— Vincent Gallo

I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will…

— Laurie Metcalf

I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day…

— Art Malik

I just think make hay while the sun shines really when you're an actor. When the opportunities present themselves you just better…

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in…

— David Leitch

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can…

— Hugh Jackman

I would like to do theaters. That's always been a dream. I think that would be a good way to tour. But…

— Neal Brennan

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan…

— Mark Haddon

In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part…

— Brian Dennehy

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the…

— Luca Guadagnino

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you…

— Jaime Pressly

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so…

— Derek Luke

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of…

— Roger Andrew Taylor

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

— Andrew Scott

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

— Peyton List

Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor.

— Rob James-Collier

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

— Al Pacino

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you don't want drama, then don't run your mouth.

— Anonymous

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Theatre is where I come from and I don't want to leave it for sure.

— Pratik Gandhi

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card.

— Jacqueline McKenzie

If I weren't an actor today, I would have been a choreographer for sure.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.

— Alexander Skarsgard

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

— Anna Deavere Smith

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

— Michael Keaton