Theatre Quotes · Page 233

I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it.

— Frankie Cosmos

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

— Jamie Dornan

I had done plays, and Hindi theatre pays peanuts.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

— Christine and the Queens

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

— Karthik Subbaraj

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

— Reggie Watts

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

— Eric Bana

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

— Joe Manganiello

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do…

— Frank Langella

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming…

— Pamela Adlon

I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network…

— Jaleel White

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to…

— Domhnall Gleeson

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

— Hannah Whitall Smith

The Darkness at Irving. Hope to have as much fun doing anything ever as these guys have on stage.

— Sloane Crosley

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel…

— Glenn Howerton

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional…

— Nicholas Lea

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that…

— David Lee

I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just…

— Mekhi Phifer

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an…

— Adam Croasdell

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through…

— Lee Hall

I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to…

— Varun Dhawan

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger…

— Jay Duplass

The role has to excite me as an actor. It is like a train journey: you know where you have to reach,…

— Nana Patekar

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

— Bob Dylan

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

— Joe Penny

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

— Donnie Yen

I don't think I am an actor, because I haven't studied to be an actress.

— Yalitza Aparicio

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

— Priyanka Chopra

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

— Orlando Bloom

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

— Anurag Kashyap

I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.

— Kim Kyu-jong

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

— Gabriel Macht

It is important for an actor not to get stuck with an image.

— Atul Kulkarni

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

— Stella Adler

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

— Frank Vincent

People end up seeing actors hanging around with somebody and they link them together.

— Saqib Saleem

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

— Annette Bening

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

— Ben Miller

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

— Julian Fellowes