Theatre Quotes · Page 210

We called 'Heavy Rain' an interactive drama, for whatever that's worth.

— David Cage

You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.

— Mary Beard

I'm Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it's magical.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

Jo, I'm not real. I'm theatre. And you & I- This is just rehearsal.

— Lady Gaga

Honestly a role is a role - whichever industry it is in - TV, stage or films.

— Sanam Saeed

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

— Alia Shawkat

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

— Tim Cahill

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

— Robert Redford

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with…

— Lauren Bacall

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

— Christopher Walken

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill…

— Katori Hall

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for…

— Xosha Roquemore

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when…

— Hugh Jackman

My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress.…

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not…

— Michael Beck

As an actor, there is so little freedom to choose. You can keep waiting for aeons to get the right role. It…

— Anoop Menon

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you…

— Luke Evans

I would never blame an actor for taking on a role. The only time that I think I have to question why…

— Lydia Hearst

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting…

— Michael Fassbender

We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to…

— Jason Katims

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful,…

— Ajith Kumar

When I came into this profession, my first condition to myself and my managers was that I don't want to work every…

— Atul Kulkarni

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the…

— Linda Woolverton

Obviously, once you're finished, you're like, "Okay, I have to make this a movie now, and I need people - bodies to…

— Tamara Jenkins

While I am open to good offers when they come by, I have found my calling in theatre.

— Radhika Apte

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

— Roger Rees

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

— Miranda Otto

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

— Sam Worthington

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

— Kristen Stewart

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

— Marina Abramovic

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

— John Cusack

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

— Eileen Atkins

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

— Jason Reitman

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

— Jenna Fischer

It was not a conscious decision to become an actor.

— Ishita Dutta

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

— Tara Strong

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

— Tricia Helfer

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

— Rahul Dev

If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

— Randeep Hooda