Theatre Quotes · Page 194

Here's a thought for you; try doing better with your life rather than start pointless drama.

— Anonymous

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

— Richard Gere

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.

— Harry Morgan

I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.

— Hiro Murai

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

— Will Sasso

I see the stage as one place, where you sing, dance, move. It doesn't matter.

— Lee Evans

If drama and BS came with a paycheck, some people would never have work again!!

— Nishan Panwar

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

— Mickey Sumner

I trained to be a theatre actor, I love the live gig, the transference between an audience and a performer.

— Adrian Dunbar

I have been trying to get theatre releases for short films ever since I have been making them. I didn't get any…

— Karthik Subbaraj

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and…

— George Hickenlooper

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

— David Hockney

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for…

— Michael Caine

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater - more theater than anything else - and when I…

— Tony Shalhoub

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a…

— Glynn Turman

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing…

— Caitlin Thomas

Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show…

— Derek Cianfrance

Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability…

— Brett Ratner

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor…

— Tom Bateman

I was always trying to perform, but never with some dream to be on the stage. The stage was wherever I was…

— Jai Courtney

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a…

— Alfred Jarry

Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have…

— Jim Parrack

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they…

— Timothy West

I think an actor should look for a good role irrespective of its length.

— Himani Shivpuri

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

— Jessie J

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

— Ron Perlman

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

— Pele

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

— Patrick Wilson

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

— Charles Keating

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

— Robert Benchley

I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising.

— Ricky Gervais

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

— Adam Lamberg

I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.

— Robert Sean Leonard

The day after 'X-Factor' ended, I was in the studio with Will.I.Am.

— Cher Lloyd

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

— Monica Ali

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

— Dean Devlin

I may be a princess, but I'm definitely not a drama queen.

— Carole Radziwill

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

— Diego Luna