Theatre Quotes · Page 227

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

— Dean Norris

“Let’s wrap up,” “To summarize” and “Before I leave the stage, let me leave you with this.”

— Akash Karia

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

— Dan Levy

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

— Samuel Wilberforce

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

— Antonin Artaud

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

— William Baldwin

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

— Iris Murdoch

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

— Bootsy Collins

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that…

— Gary Oldman

For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.

— Michael B. Jordan

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script,…

— Mathieu Demy

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all.…

— Max Irons

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort…

— Juliette Binoche

A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in,…

— Marti Noxon

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for…

— Josh Dallas

I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these…

— Steve McQueen

I was always putting on shows for my family or even just myself in the mirror, being a total psychopath, just screaming…

— Italia Ricci

I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

While pursuing engineering, my passion for theatre grew. So, I told dad I wanted to pursue acting - 'Do you really want…

— Pankaj Kapur

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of…

— William Shatner

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then…

— Tony Kushner

I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated…

— Amy Seimetz

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and…

— Nils Frahm

I always say what makes acting so much easier is when you get to act off of good actors.

— Noah Schnapp

I think that's every actor's dream, actually: to play lead parts.

— Wes Studi

I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.

— Hugh Grant

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

— Jesse Eisenberg

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As an actor, I am happy that I am able to entertain the audience.

— Sanya Malhotra

My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.

— Hari Nef

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

— Joel Kinnaman

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

— Gene Wilder

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

— Charlie Chaplin

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

— Frank Rich

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

— Tim Matheson

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

— John Turturro

I believe that the performance of my actors is of utmost importance to make a good film.

— Pankaj Kapur

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

— Magda Gerber