Theatre Quotes · Page 145

Ghostbusters is kind of like the reason I wanted to be an actor.

— Michael Cera

Actors thrive on challenges. Only then can you perform.

— Puneet Issar

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

— John Lithgow

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

— Conrad Veidt

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

— Adina Porter

I've always been attracted to acting as soon as I did my first video.

— Ginuwine

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

— Lee Norris

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

— Carla Gugino

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're…

— Sophie Rundle

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way…

— David Oyelowo

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always…

— David Henry Hwang

“We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.”

— Groucho Marx

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

— Viola Davis

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly'…

— Meryl Streep

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully…

— A. Alfred Taubman

It is truly connected to your job as an actor, and it benefits the character and the entire film to build a…

— Fred Hechinger

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a…

— Brent Spiner

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to…

— Andre Holland

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art…

— Philip Pullman

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating…

— Adam Scott

The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but…

— Natalie Dormer

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and…

— Nick Offerman

I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are…

— Frank Welker

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

— Kim Basinger

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

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

— Zachary Quinto

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

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

— Joe Cole

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

— Steve Kazee

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

— Ekta Kapoor

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

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

— Condola Rashad

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

— Rainn Wilson

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

— Kim Cattrall