Theatre Quotes · Page 151

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

— Jim Rash

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

— D. B. Sweeney

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

— Orson Welles

Being an actor doesn't mean that I can't react to what's happening around me.

— Mohanlal

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

— Alice Ripley

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

— David Amram

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

— Sean Gunn

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

— George Chakiris

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

— Marianne Elliott

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for…

— Gaby Hoffmann

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a…

— Steve Carell

When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an…

— Vicky Kaushal

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel

My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.

— Haris Pasovic

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

— Elaine Stritch

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to…

— Christine Ebersole

I've always found it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium. And people allow me to…

— Russell Crowe

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates…

— John Berger

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with…

— Takeshi Kitano

Shyambazar evokes a strong sense of nostalgia in me. There's not a theatre in that area where I haven't watched a movie.…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts,…

— Tom Hollander

In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of…

— Michael Emerson

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I love learning new things from the other actors.

— Sadie Sink

I've been very lucky because I've gotten to work with some incredible actors.

— Jeremy Strong

I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.

— Mariette Hartley

Stage phobia never touched me. I was naturally drawn towards the spotlight.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

— Dennis Quaid

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

— Michael McDonald

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

— Adam Driver

I find I'm more moved by character and filmmaker or the group of actors than I am by genre.

— Fred Hechinger

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

— Celia Imrie

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

— John Mortimer

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

— Alan Cumming

As an actor, what matters to me is to keep doing good work.

— Sunny Singh

Acting happened to me incidentally, I never planned.

— Shefali Shah

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

— Ben Chaplin

Roles should choose an actor and not vice versa.

— Vijay Sethupathi