Theatre Quotes · Page 198

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

— Jason Katims

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

— Kevin Connolly

That awkward moment when someone who always starts drama complains that they hate drama.

— SimpliNae

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

— Louis Jourdan

Being an actors' family, we generally didn't think about any other profession.

— Supriya Pathak

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

— Les Claypool

When I believe in an actor, I believe there is something in that actor.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

— Sylvester Stallone

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

— Max Greenfield

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a…

— Britt Ekland

I like to believe that my actors are not acting. That whatever they are doing, or whatever has been said, would happen…

— Nadine Labaki

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

— Lindsay Duncan

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I…

— Vito Acconci

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

— Perdita Weeks

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

— Jason Ralph

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a…

— Sylvester Stallone

One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play…

— Samara Weaving

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have…

— Annette Bening

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not…

— Marina Abramovic

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I can't stand on the roadside and have Pani Puri like before. But, at the same time, being an actor makes you…

— Kriti Sanon

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know…

— Keira Knightley

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in…

— Edward Albee

When musical theatre is working and people are really connecting with the characters, and then the music adds that strong emotional element,…

— Stephen Schwartz

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

— Richard Marquand

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

— Tiffany Darwish

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

— Paul Newman

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

— Stephen Leacock

“If the stage doesn´t change you, you can change people without being on a stage.”

— Alin Sav

I want to make it clear that I don't have any competition with other Bhojpuri actors.

— Ravi Kishan

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

— Michael Caine

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

— Fredric March

At the end of the day, you are an actor and the medium doesn't matter.

— Prachi Desai

“yeah - im a drama queen, but im the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen.”

— avril lavigne

“A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

There are times I've been surprised by how emotional I can be on stage.

— Hannah Gadsby

I knew that I was going to become an actor since I was 5.

— Mark Ivanir

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

— Stella Adler

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

— Beatrice Wood

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

— John Calvin