Theatre Quotes · Page 23

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

— Emmy Rossum

I now realise I'm a great actor.

— Noma Dumezweni

Child actors are notorious for being brats.

— Kylie Bunbury

I always wanted to be an actor.

— Dan Stevens

I was an actor first and foremost.

— Bernard Cribbins

For me, I just am so grateful to be an actor.

— Sandra Oh

Actors are all narcissists.

— Gillian Jacobs

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

— Ian Mckellen

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

— Tom Stoppard

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

— Mario Lopez

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

— Alia Shawkat

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

— William Hartnell

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

— Maggie Smith

Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying -…

— Hong Chau

I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time…

— Andrea Hall

That's the challenge as an actor. You put yourself in uncomfortable positions because that's your job. Otherwise, just stay home and watch…

— Stacy Martin

But there are times, as an actor, where you are like, 'Although I am really sad that I did not get this,…

— Wunmi Mosaku

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting…

— Abhimanyu Singh

I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. [] It’s an…

— Matthew Bellamy

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

— George Eads

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my…

— David Small

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one…

— Ben Schnetzer

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play.…

— Dylan Walsh

For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the…

— Benjamin Stone

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not…

— Noomi Rapace

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our…

— Sonoya Mizuno

Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with…

— John Lithgow

Even now while I'm acting on Broadway, I find myself saying things like, 'Well I'm not REALLY an actor, I'm more of…

— Cole Escola

Life is short, I have no time for drama.

— Caroline Manzo

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

— Paul Lynde

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

— Anonymous

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

— Tom Hanks

I'm not an actor; I'm a judge.

— Joseph Wapner

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

— Shia LaBeouf

I like working in the theatre.

— Jean Marsh

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

— Stanley Tucci