Theatre Quotes · Page 232

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

— Alan Moore

I have not decided if I want to be a teacher or an actor, because I like both of them.

— Yalitza Aparicio

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

— Cyril Cusack

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

— Debra Winger

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

— Marina Abramovic

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

— David Jason

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

— Angelina Jolie

I know that part of my success on stage is due to the fact that I've kept myself together.

— Barbi Benton

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script].…

— Nicole Kidman

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

— Josh Hutcherson

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor.…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like…

— Peter Billingsley

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

— Wesley Snipes

I went to an arts high school and was surrounded by drama students who dreamed of working in the industry. I almost…

— Hunter Schafer

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do…

— Denis Leary

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to…

— Amanda Peet

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a…

— Jessica Chastain

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too…

— Toby Jones

I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all…

— Eddie Redmayne

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and…

— Ato Essandoh

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a…

— William H. Prescott

A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of…

— Carrie Preston

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as…

— James Spader

Not all actors get dream roles. We have to choose from whatever we are offered.

— Koena Mitra

I want to be tagged as an actor and not as a star.

— Shweta Tripathi

When I go on stage, all I have is the ability to talk about myself.

— Esther Povitsky

There is always chemistry between two good actors.

— Arshad Warsi

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

— John Wells

My mum asked me what I prefer, and I said, 'I never miss film, but I miss theater.'

— Tom Bateman

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

— Michael Ritchie

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.

— Tina Brown

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

— Ray Romano

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

— Scott Speedman

I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor.

— Michael Arden

I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage - big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.

— Phoebe Fox

One day Id like to try my hand at doing a gritty cop drama.

— Tony Hadley

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

— James Nesbitt

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

— Augusto Boal