Theatre Quotes · Page 156

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

— Adrian Lewis

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

— Brett Gelman

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

— Kit Harington

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

— Michael Shurtleff

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

— Becky G

Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.

— Tom Burke

To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes…

— Kenny Ortega

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

— Juliette Binoche

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with…

— Ridley Scott

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and…

— Ewan McGregor

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming…

— Jim Morrison

I don't think you should ever put yourself through heartache or stress because you think it's going to make you a better…

— Aimee Lou Wood

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as…

— Mike Leigh

We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and…

— Walter Hill

It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take…

— Derren Brown

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me…

— Armie Hammer

If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore,…

— Amitabh Bachchan

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking,…

— Rocky Carroll

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means…

— Gary Oldman

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

— Vivien Leigh

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm not married to an actor. I'd never make that mistake again.

— Patti D'Arbanville

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

— Michael Portillo

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

“He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.”

— Gordon Highland

“You don't have to know me, to read my drama-story.”

— Shin Haido

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

— David Walton

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

— Ken Stott

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

— Sayani Gupta

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

— Thia Megia

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'

— Divya Khosla Kumar