Theatre Quotes · Page 147

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

— Mia Wasikowska

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

— Vaclav Havel

I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.

— Chandra Wilson

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

— Robert Smith

Well, I think I'm a good actor, without being boastful.

— Bernard Cribbins

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

— Norbert Leo Butz

If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.

— George C. Wolfe

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,'…

— Ashish Sharma

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked,…

— Julia Ormond

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their…

— Casey Affleck

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I…

— Pratik Gandhi

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

— Bill Hader

Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.

— Shabana Azmi

All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you…

— Harold Prince

[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England,…

— Geena Davis

After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back…

— Ng Chin Han

I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too…

— Diana Rigg

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at…

— George Eliot

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create…

— Pete Townshend

The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

— Kit Harington

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

— Alfred Hitchcock

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

— Stanley Tucci

I had this idea when I left drama school that if I could do everything, I'd always be working.

— Denis Lawson

In my films writers are more important than actors.

— Shoojit Sircar

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

— Richard E. Grant

Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.

— Tamannaah

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

— Len Cariou

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

— Katherine Dunham

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

— Finn Wittrock

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

— Josh Hamilton

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

As an actor, I am greedy. I want to experiment with all actors and directors.

— Anupama Parameswaran

As an actor, I have no limitation. I will do whatever excites me.

— Kriti Kharbanda

I would participate in stage shows during my school days.

— Hazel Keech

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

— Michael Caine