Theatre Quotes · Page 187

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

— Katie Holmes

The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

— Ray Winstone

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.

— Viola Spolin

I saw 'Hairspray' in New York and had one of the best nights I've ever had in the theatre.

— Michael Ball

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.

— Alex Meraz

Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.

— Paresh Rawal

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

— Alfred Molina

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

— Anonymous

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made…

— Farrah Fawcett

I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it…

— John Bishop

I am a terrible actor. Every day I am amazed and I thank my lucky stars that I fooled you all this…

— Ewan McGregor

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it…

— Condola Rashad

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out…

— Jane Lynch

I was a dancer, so it was easy for me to dance in films. I had studied Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Odisi and…

— Asha Parekh

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

— Brit Marling

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways,…

— Nick Blaemire

“If it were advertised that a troupe of men of easy virtue were to appear half-clothed upon a public stage, exposing their…

— H.L. Mencken

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I…

— Bob Odenkirk

Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by…

— Robert Lepage

Just before I got 'Sex Ed,' I was going to give up acting. I was like, I have to put an end…

— Ncuti Gatwa

In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to…

— LaTanya Richardson

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice…

— Nicholas Brendon

I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway,…

— Christopher Walken

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

— Richard Simmons

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

Being on stage, telling jokes and telling stories is where I feel the most at home.

— John Bishop

I've always considered myself a character actor.

— Jack Huston

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

— Chris Lowell

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

— Diane Ladd

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

— Leighton Meester

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

— Christopher Lambert

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

— Neeraj Kabi

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

— Mithun Chakraborty

“Fuck it; put it in a bucket, and take it to the stage!”

— George Clinton

For the longest time people just assumed I would be in theatre.

— Lauren Ridloff

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

— Gareth Gates

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

— David Farr