Theatre Quotes · Page 174

I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

— Dennis Hopper

The audience requires not information but drama.

— David Mamet

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

— Martin Short

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

— Frank Langella

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

— Ian Mckellen

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

— Thayer David

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

— Omari Hardwick

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

— Al Pacino

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell…

— Marisha Pessl

People say actors change once they become stars, but it's wrong. People don't change, it's always you who changes.

— Luv Ranjan

Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for…

— Naseeruddin Shah

It's not an easy job, but the satisfaction an actor feels when he has done a good job and the money make…

— Lorne Greene

When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.

— Michael Socha

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's…

— Henry Rollins

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I did fringe theatre for so many years, and then I got my first play at the RSC, which was an amazing…

— Noma Dumezweni

I will do a big-budget film. I will do an indie film. I will do a short film. I will do a…

— Radhika Apte

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever…

— Tobin Bell

I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to.…

— Nicole Kidman

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I love to act, so the only way I could act was through community theatre and they would just do musicals. My…

— Thomston

I'm here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that's actually quite daunting, but which I…

— Tom Hardy

We see a transformation of warfare from the big armies and battlefields in open spaces to a fragmentation of armed groups and…

— Peter Maurer

It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where…

— Holly Marie Combs

All eyes on me while I'm on stage, Let's take over the world like pinky and the brain.

— Kid Ink

I have actor's dreams where I am opening a play and know neither the lines nor the story.

— Maureen Lipman

I am more comfortable in the actor's and writer's role than a director's.

— Sreenivasan

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

— Kevin Macdonald

“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.”

— Alan Moore

As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'

— Kathryn Newton

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

— Bill Oberst Jr

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

— Sylvester Stallone

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

— Kim Cattrall

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

— Alan Alda

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

— Francesca Annis

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

— Max Casella

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

— Danny Huston

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

— Germaine Greer

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

— Rachel Weisz