Theatre Quotes · Page 204

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

— Gregory Nunn

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

— Laura Marano

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

— Michael C. Hall

Not all the actors get a chance to leave a landmark.

— Amrapali Gupta

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

To see a musical with mostly black actors, even at 10 I knew that was special.

— Leslie Uggams

My mom was a pillar of support to my father in his theatre endeavors.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I'm not one of those actors who can complain that work's thinned out since I've got older.

— Geraldine James

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies…

— Charles Kimbrough

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What…

— Rob James-Collier

If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer.

— Rakshit Shetty

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will…

— Tisca Chopra

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my…

— Chloe Sevigny

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and…

— Bill Paxton

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

— Brian Tee

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great…

— Nicolas Roeg

I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of…

— Bradford Dillman

As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with…

— Viola Davis

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists…

— Nicolas Roeg

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis…

— Eric Bentley

In 1993, I premiered my solo piece 'Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far' at the…

— Leslie Jordan

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to…

— Gavin MacLeod

“Has it ever happened, you’ve seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater…

— Richard Bach

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters…

— John Dos Passos

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

— Gavin Creel

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

— Prateik Babbar

I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.

— Jennette McCurdy

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

— Chris Noth

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

— Ram Dass

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

— Charlie Plummer

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

— Sarita Choudhury

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

— Kirti Kulhari

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

— Fahadh Faasil

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

— Alex Pettyfer

Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

— George W. S. Trow

I love doing dramas because it's quiet and focused work.

— Helene Yorke

“Real life is real drama... Others are just a drama”

— Sai Jagannath Behera

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

— Robert Englund

I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.

— Miriam Margolyes

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

— Andre Braugher