Theatre Quotes · Page 170

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

— Jo Brand

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

— Joe Cole

For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

— Steve Kazee

It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.

— Ekta Kapoor

I think I was always interested in acting... I think it's always been there.

— Taylor Russell

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

— Harry Houdini

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

— Condola Rashad

For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.

— Mukesh Tiwari

For three years, from 1992-1994, I tried my luck as an actor. And then, wondering if I had a face to match…

— Samuthirakani

A lot of people consider the actors as their role models and look up to them for guidance. When your decision affects…

— Suresh Gopi

I never shoot my movies like I'm shooting 'a horror movie,' I shoot them like dramas. Dramas and then something horrible happens.

— Mike Flanagan

I feel that with more representation working behind the camera, the stories that are told in television, film and stage would become…

— Lauren Ridloff

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

— Helen Mirren

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy;…

— Daniel Dae Kim

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which…

— Michel de Montaigne

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to…

— Rex Harrison

Once you're on set, it doesn't feel like oh my God it's Akshay Kumar, he just makes you feel like any other…

— Sargun Mehta

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is…

— Ricky Jay

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead,…

— Kathy Baker

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the…

— Edward Herrmann

“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply…

— Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could…

— Margot Robbie

Finally after 19 years of stage work Shyam Benegal noticed me and I got my first break as an actor in 'Ankur'…

— Dalip Tahil

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

— Minka Kelly

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

— Rainn Wilson

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

— Anton Chekhov

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

— Sydney Pollack

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

— Christine and the Queens

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

— Tom Hiddleston

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

— James Purefoy

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

— Tadashi Suzuki

I believe every actor gets some chance or the other to show his capability.

— Govinda

Like most actors, I'm quite shy, so I liked being other people.

— Rebecca Front

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

— Iris Murdoch

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

— Peyton List

Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor.

— Rob James-Collier