Theatre Quotes · Page 226

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

— Roger Moore

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

— David Soul

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

— Michael B. Jordan

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

— Mila Kunis

I think it's an actor's gift to be as old as people think you are.

— Essie Davis

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

— Peter O'Toole

My life is complicated enough. The last thing I need is more drama.

— Hannah Montana

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

— Edgar Wright

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was…

— Harold Prince

At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the…

— Jim Caviezel

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

— Dwayne Johnson

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's…

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

— Ralph Fiennes

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do…

— John Leguizamo

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

— Jake Shimabukuro

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally…

— David Morrissey

I love theater, and I love that you have to be so intensely in the character and you have to hit that…

— Ncuti Gatwa

The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like…

— Dwayne Johnson

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a…

— Lesley Sharp

I'm fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors…

— Will Poulter

Actors are very often people who are placed in a position where they think they have to be grateful for the job…

— Joe Morton

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go…

— Rodrigo Santoro

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and…

— Rumer Willis

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

— Christopher Walken

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

— Jodie Comer

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

— Ato Essandoh

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

— Julian Fellowes

I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

— Boyd Holbrook

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

— Deepika Padukone

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

— Richard Beymer

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

— Lindsay Duncan

You need a lot of intra-personal relation skills if you're an actor.

— Pratik Gandhi

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

— Adam Rapp

...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...

— David Nicholls

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

— Wilmer Valderrama

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

— Laura San Giacomo

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

— Matthew Modine