Theatre Quotes · Page 186

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

— Stephen Charnock

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

— Catherine Deneuve

Actors have limited time. We also have a shelf life.

— Prabhas

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

Getting stereotyped is a problem. That's an actor's drawback and a producer's cash cow.

— Arshad Warsi

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

— Bill Hader

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

— Glenn Ficarra

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

— Tom Sizemore

An actor has to continuously reinvent himself. So my plea to all directors and scriptwriters is please look at me out of…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

One minute I'm on stage in London, the next Hollywood, swanning around with Daniel Craig in a golf buggy.

— Geraldine James

I love Tigmanshu Dhulia's work. He is an amazing director. He is also an actor, so we have a great understanding about…

— Kunal Kapoor

Christopher Plummer showed this 14-year-old aspiring actor what acting really was. I idolized him as my film father, he was my role…

— Nicholas Hammond

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

— Penelope Cruz

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised…

— Tina Fey

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in…

— Jerome Lawrence

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have…

— Minnie Driver

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I…

— Larry Hovis

The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going…

— John Logan

The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but…

— Andy Serkis

There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part…

— Anton Yelchin

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I…

— Stephen Root

It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career because I get a…

— Katrina Kaif

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama…

— Francois Arnaud

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

— Brenton Thwaites

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

— Shaun Sipos

The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.

— Jane Lynch

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

— Matthew Vaughn

One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

— Christopher Walken

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

— Josh Lucas

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

— David Wenham

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

— Teller

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

— Alan Arkin

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

— Emily VanCamp

The stage, the show, the fans, that doesn’t matter because I’m always gonna fight my fight.

— Cat Zingano

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

— Gelsey Kirkland

I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still down to earth.

— Tom Weston-Jones

I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact.

— Stephen Graham

I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

— Douglas Booth