Theatre Quotes · Page 22

My heroes were all in the theatre.

— Damian Lewis

To be an actor you have to be a child.

— Paul Newman

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

— Maura Tierney

I never pretended to be a great actor.

— Joel McCrea

I always saw myself as a character actor.

— Lana Parrilla

I started acting when I was 10.

— Mariette Hartley

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

— Heath Ledger

I love theater. I come from theater.

— Melissa Barrera

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

— Nicole Ari Parker

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

— Mark Wahlberg

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

— Julia Garner

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

— Beck Bennett

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

— David Soul

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things…

— Stephen Lang

But it would be churlish of me not to appreciate what it's brought me. If a good number of people come into…

— Patricia Routledge

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on…

— D. H. Lawrence

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

— Michael Caine

Good actors have always supported each other's performances in a film, and the same happened in 'Bareilly Ki Barfi.' We all supported…

— Rajkummar Rao

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person…

— Jamie Dornan

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

— Sian Clifford

I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and…

— John Kani

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should…

— Sarah Ruhl

I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be,…

— Abhishek Bachchan

Sometimes as a deaf actor navigating television and film, I fret that I am asking for too much or am slowing things…

— Lauren Ridloff

With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with…

— Sara Bareilles

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that…

— Hannah Gadsby

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't…

— Sherilyn Fenn

“Now I have something to tell you," her brother said. "Every time I've had to take part in anything with other people,…

— Robert Musil

People feel that actors are very powerful but I don't think that's true because someone writes the content for you and comes…

— Kunal Kapoor

I wanted to be an actor since I was a child.

— Sanjay Mishra

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

— Olivier Megaton

I grew up doing musical theater.

— Chris Colfer

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was a struggling actor all my life.

— Soni Razdan

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

— Lamorne Morris

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

— Callan McAuliffe

You can only do so much theatre.

— Victor Garber