Theatre Quotes · Page 161

I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.

— Ammy Virk

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

— Amanda Hale

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

— Peter Capaldi

One of my favorite actors is Jack Lemmon. I would love to have a career like that.

— Josh Duhamel

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

— Laurie Metcalf

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

— Mark Twain

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

— Antonio Banderas

No matter how creatively satisfying theatre might be, it is a poorly-paid medium, which is sad.

— Himani Shivpuri

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going…

— Adam Rapp

As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A.,…

— Julianne Moore

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

— Demian Bichir

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts…

— Damian Lewis

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

If I'm in a restaurant, and someone recognizes me and asks for a signature or a photograph after a drink, that's good…

— Ken Watanabe

After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get…

— Shruti Haasan

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used…

— Ian Mckellen

When I played the lead actor, it was a stressful job right from the starting to the release of the film. I…

— Jagapathi Babu

Just as Jack Lewis could go through a whole life without meeting someone that he loved, so you can go through whole…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects,…

— Jeff Britting

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of…

— Edward Norton

I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're…

— Colin Firth

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other…

— Brooke Adams

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

— Romany Malco

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

“Replace the word "acting" with "doing," because even a clown is an excellent actor.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

“Life is not a stage Rehearsal...so make every moment count”

— Sean Soloman

More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Working with actors is actually something I treasure a lot.

— Justin Lin

I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.

— Ian Brown

It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

— Julian Bream

I think I've said I'm the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that.

— Adam West

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

— Amanda Seyfried

I want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

— Scott Eastwood

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

— Matthew Broderick

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

— Marilyn Monroe

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

— Michael Rady

One needs strong performance to put across a point in theatre.

— Mahesh Bhatt