Theatre Quotes · Page 228

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

— Antoine Rivarol

I need to grow as an actor and work with different people, understand their points of view.

— Zayed Khan

You are inspired to give a better performance when there are good actors with you.

— Divya Dutta

With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

— Andrew Lau

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

— Antoinette Perry

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

— Michelle Ryan

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

— Ted Shackelford

“We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives…

— Ann Brashares

There are a lot of directors who really need the assistance of an actor and they need the actor to come up…

— Zayed Khan

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in…

— George Packer

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of…

— Francis Ford Coppola

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle…

— Bryan Cranston

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

— Simon Neil

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying…

— Wes Craven

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with…

— Norman Jewison

The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family.…

— David Morse

One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I…

— Devon Sawa

Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So…

— Mariette Hartley

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's…

— Dan Futterman

The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows,…

— Sarah Burton

I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the…

— Chris Lilley

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I only did theater in high school, and I loved it so much; yeah, I must tell you I loved being on…

— Kristin Kreuk

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

— CL

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

— Patrick Duffy

I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.

— Vanessa Kirby

I really credit my learning curve to my experience on stage.

— Rachel Zegler

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

— Kay Kay Menon

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

— Gloria Stuart

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

— Elaine Stritch

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

— Cate Blanchett

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

— Harold Pinter

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

— Adam West

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

— Lauren Graham

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

— Sigourney Weaver

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

— Daniel Craig

The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.

— Aya Cash

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

— Kirti Kulhari

We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.

— Jose Ferrer