Theatre Quotes · Page 201

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

— Waheeda Rehman

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

— D. W. Griffith

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

I want to be a director's actor and stay true to their vision.

— Samuthirakani

I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.

— Jennifer Holliday

I've been on stage since I was six years old... Street dancing, bugaloo, moonwalking.

— Eddie Griffin

If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.

— Elaine Stritch

I'm lucky that I don't feel I have the pressure some actors do. I'm proud of what I've accomplished and I'm not…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

— George C. Wolfe

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

— Mireille Enos

Since I'm not a method actor, I don't actually feel angry or feel that I'm being mean, I just do it because…

— Sophie Nelisse

'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I…

— John Bishop

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or…

— Michael Ian Black

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

— Peter Weir

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

— Leon Askin

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a…

— Terry Crews

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in…

— Peter Stone

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to…

— Keith Allen

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why…

— Bill Watterson

What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,…

— Michael Chekhov

I mean, theater acting for me is the true form. It's the real place where you learn, the place where you practice,…

— Dominic Monaghan

It takes such a particular amazing and extraordinary type of personality to become an actor. I love them. You can't do my…

— Thea Sharrock

“Cinema captures the sound of speech close up and makes us hear in their materiality, their sensuality, the breath, the gutturals, the…

— Roland Barthes

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

— Travis Scott

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

— George Jean Nathan

Being in the theatre is like being in a little family: you get really close.

— Sophie Okonedo

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

— Pete Wentz

Drama just means jealous people looking for attention.

— Anonymous

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

— Vicky Kaushal

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

— Lucas Grabeel

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

— Ira Glass

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

— Joe Namath

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

— Jack Barakat

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

— Ken Jeong

I don't like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.

— Nicholas Hammond

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

— Allu Arjun

As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

— Laura Osnes

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

— Gaspard Ulliel

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

— John Ross Bowie