Theatre Quotes · Page 169

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

— Dan Hawkins

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

— Christopher Walken

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

— Melanie Griffith

On stage, I am in the dark.On stage, I am in the dark.

— Maria Callas

I was meant to be an actor, and I realised that only after my son was born.

— N. T. Rama Rao, Jr

Growing up, I spent a lot of time in the darkened theatres.

— Jeetendra

“The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre.”

— Albert Camus

It feels good to be tagged as a talented, versatile actor.

— Ranvir Shorey

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

— Matt Dillon

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent…

— Dylan McDermott

People have always asked, 'Do you prefer comedy or drama?' And my answer is, 'Both, at the same time.'

— Connie Britton

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit…

— Ricky Jay

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep,…

— Laurence Olivier

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just…

— Todd Haynes

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is…

— Tahar Rahim

I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five…

— Niecy Nash

I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I…

— Giles Matthey

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was…

— Brian d'Arcy James

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get…

— Chris Parnell

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I…

— Andy Serkis

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the…

— Eve Best

If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been…

— Burt Reynolds

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that…

— Joel Edgerton

Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.

— Anne Jackson

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

— Romany Malco

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

— Dia Mirza

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

— Rose McGowan

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

— Tim Crouch

If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

— Pierce Brosnan

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

— Mark Rylance

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

— Jackie Chan

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

— Rishi Kapoor

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

— Sarah Sutton

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

— Molly Ringwald

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

— Eric Balfour

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

— Rob McElhenney

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

— Brad Hall

“Well that's New York for ya. The only people who rush the stage are guys.”

— Jim Morrison

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

— Yorgos Lanthimos