Theatre Quotes · Page 189

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

— Bruce Campbell

At the end of the day, being an actor means you should be able to do all kinds of stuff.

— Ayesha Takia

French actors are so much better and cinema is better over there.

— Charlotte Hope

I always wanted to be the center of attention - you know actors, ugh.

— Isabela Moner

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself.

— John Candy

There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.

— Rick Santelli

I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.

— Zeenat Aman

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

— Matt Barnes

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

— Jeremy Irvine

No actors worth their salt get through a single performance without forgetting their lines and bumping into the furniture. It's one of…

— Rebecca Front

I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love…

— Viola Davis

I've always admired actors such as Tabu, Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi and I'd like to do the kind of roles that…

— Sanam Saeed

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a…

— Alan Rosenberg

I was from Broadway, and typically when they make movie musicals in the States, they aren't using theater talent, they're using pop…

— Ariana DeBose

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

— Thea Sharrock

My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's…

— Kelly Asbury

Even during my short film days, I approached theatres with the idea of playing them during the interval. They thought it was…

— Karthik Subbaraj

People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that…

— Roger Rees

I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,'…

— Lauren Worsham

It's part of the film-making business and also part of the creative process - putting all the pieces together to make a…

— Antoine Fuqua

I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was…

— John Buffalo Mailer

Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at…

— Eckhart Tolle

In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you…

— Sylvester Stallone

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with…

— Philip Auslander

Fears, laughs, drama, tears. are the organs of life

— Anonymous

I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

— Flume

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

— David Amram

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

— Alice Ripley

Being an actor doesn't mean that I can't react to what's happening around me.

— Mohanlal

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.

— George Chakiris

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

— Sean Gunn

I love learning new things from the other actors.

— Sadie Sink

I've been very lucky because I've gotten to work with some incredible actors.

— Jeremy Strong

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

— Dennis Quaid

I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.

— Mariette Hartley

Stage phobia never touched me. I was naturally drawn towards the spotlight.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

— Michael McDonald

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

— Adam Driver