Theatre Quotes · Page 207

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

— Matt Bomer

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

— Woody Allen

I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights.

— Ryan Murphy

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

— Sophia Loren

One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.

— Ali Fazal

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

— Ali Fazal

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

— Tim Meadows

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But…

— Christopher Walken

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

— Delhi Ganesh

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

— Lindsay Duncan

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret…

— Claire Foy

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

— Richard Gere

Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to…

— Miriam Shor

“If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping…

— John Heilpern

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see…

— Alan Arkin

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having…

— Anonymous

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs…

— Sybil Thorndike

The audience at the Apollo took no prisoners. They would boo you in a second. It was better than any schooling that…

— Leslie Uggams

When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I…

— Joe Cole

Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star…

— Henry Rollins

There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try…

— Lenny Abrahamson

“Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.”

— Michelle Knudsen

As an actor, you're not working every day and sometimes not for long periods of time.

— Van Heflin

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

— Jim Parsons

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

— Kim Wayans

When I'm on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.

— Nina Simone

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

— Zosia Mamet

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

— Robert Ludlum

I tend to go to the theater a lot. I've always loved it.

— Sophie McShera

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’

— Rob James-Collier

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

Dont blame FACEOOK for YOUR drama that YOU started!

— Rachel Estrada

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

— Bill Pullman

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

— Soha Ali Khan

I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.

— Roger Allam

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

— Vikram