Theatre Quotes · Page 176

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

— Anthony Warlow

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

— Alan Clark

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

— Jack Nicholson

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

— Yancy Butler

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

— Stephanie Szostak

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

— Cillian Murphy

As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.

— Michael Horse

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

— Eric Braeden

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

— George Strait

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to…

— Daryl Hannah

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

— Daniela Bobadilla

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be…

— Steve Kazee

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I…

— Scott Adsit

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to…

— Eva Green

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

— Holland Roden

Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong…

— Poonam Dhillon

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the…

— Eleanora Duse

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It…

— Dennis Quaid

As an actor, I had the most power than I've ever had before, because I was able to create and arc and…

— Esme Creed-Miles

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together…

— Sheridan Smith

Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being…

— Chita Rivera

When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

— Maxim Gorky

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

— David Whyte

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

— Jane Levy

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

— John Ratzenberger

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

— David Morse

The thing I love about being on stage is I can do whatever I want.

— Sigrid

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

— Bruce Forsyth

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

— Kevin Bacon

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

— Paul Dano

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

— Obie Trice

Nobody aspired to be an actor where I came from and I didn't think I would get in anywhere.

— Douglas Henshall

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

— Henry Ford

I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving.

— Elton John

I studied science. And I had a group of friends who were heavily into music and theatre.

— Mohit Chauhan

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

— Mohanlal

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

— Danny McBride