Theatre Quotes · Page 21

“An actor is the sum of his parts.”

— D W Wilkin

Every good singer is a good actor.

— Kumar Sanu

I love working in the theater.

— Didi Conn

There was time when I felt bored as an actor.

— Richa Chadha

I love the theater of me.

— Michael Moriarty

It's important for an actor to self-analyze.

— Akhil Akkineni

I usually focus on monitoring my acting.

— Kwak Dong-yeon

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

— Marilyn Monroe

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

— Rana Daggubati

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

— Gustavo Dudamel

I was a Shakespearean actor, and a well-paid one.

— Lorne Greene

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

— Dorothy McGuire

I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.

— Joanna Page

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

— George Santayana

For me, it's important to continue doing good work and proving myself as an actor.

— Nikitin Dheer

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If it's the theatre and the stage that really interests you, you should work on your voice, develop its range and flexibility…

— Rosemary Harris

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without…

— James Nesbitt

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place…

— Kevin Spacey

Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively,…

— James Cromwell

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

— Varun Dhawan

“His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in…

— Emily St. John Mandel

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

— Constance Marie

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

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 you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work…

— Taika Waititi

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

— Lenny Abrahamson

“Here’s a sampling I made from the usual suspects (print, TV, radio, magazines). Zombies on the left, purgatives on the right, word…

— Harold Evans

All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The…

— Gene Wolfe

I'm a fan of a very few actors.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

— Steve Jobs

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

— Juliet Stevenson

The actor's journey to learn should never stop.

— Saqib Saleem

I know my limitations as an actor.

— Kunal Khemu

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

— Damien Hirst

I don't consider myself a good actor.

— Hrithik Roshan

I come from a traditional theater background.

— Mark Ruffalo