Theatre Quotes · Page 184

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

— Melina Kanakaredes

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”

— Oscar Wilde

Dont have time for miserable people and unnecessary drama.

— Anonymous

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

— Kit Harington

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

— Brett Gelman

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

— Adrian Lewis

Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.

— Tom Burke

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe…

— Aleksa Palladino

As a child I was on the sets all the time, even during vacation. Had I known I would be an actor,…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is…

— Mark Rydell

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way -…

— Matt Berninger

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it…

— Katie Cassidy

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of…

— Sterling K. Brown

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

— Pierfrancesco Favino

After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make…

— Luke Macfarlane

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come…

— Tina Fey

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but…

— Katherine Parkinson

I sometimes do worry that actors are people's role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things…

— Rachel Weisz

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look…

— Willem Dafoe

I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you…

— Mike Tyson

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them.…

— Channing Tatum

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

— Becky G

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

— Michael Shurtleff

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

— Vivien Leigh

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

“He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.”

— Gordon Highland

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

— Michael Portillo

I'm not married to an actor. I'd never make that mistake again.

— Patti D'Arbanville

“You don't have to know me, to read my drama-story.”

— Shin Haido

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

— Ken Stott

I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.

— David Walton

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

— Thia Megia