Theatre Quotes · Page 197

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

— Thom Yorke

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

— John Tiffany

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.”

— Anne Lamott

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

— Rita Rudner

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

— Michael Cera

Actors need to be known for having done something, because the alternative isn't so good.

— John de Lancie

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can…

— Richard Gere

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

— Tina Fey

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my…

— Woody Allen

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

— James Corden

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

— John Tiffany

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not…

— Cedric Hardwicke

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to…

— Lara Dutta

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

— Sarah Silverman

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as…

— Alan Rickman

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can…

— Kabir Bedi

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a…

— Stephen Colbert

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect…

— Navid Negahban

Theatre requires devotion that is all-consuming. When we started out, we didn't mind working 12 hours a day. We didn't mind going…

— Glenne Headly

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I…

— Deborah Mailman

I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their…

— Woody Allen

Often you find actors have big hearts; they're quite emotional people. Talking to actors who date other actors, and talking to people…

— Douglas Booth

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

— Bryan Cranston

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

— Lucas Cruikshank

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

— Felicia Day

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

— Robert Englund

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

— Christopher Timothy

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

— Vicky Kaushal

I think that TV, film, and theatre feed each other in such a beautiful way.

— Molly Gordon

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

— John Waters

“All the world's a stage and I'm just going through a phase”

— josh stern

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

— Jeremy Piven

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

— Helen Mirren

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

— Craig Revel Horwood

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

— Ruth Wilson

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

— Derek Magyar

Even if you are an established actor's son or daughter, you need to work hard.

— Rhea Chakraborty