Theatre Quotes · Page 234

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.

— Lynn Nottage

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

— Malik Yoba

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.

— Chris Pine

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

— Brianna Brown

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

— Anne Hathaway

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

— Oliver Goldsmith

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.

— Amy Jackson

My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater,…

— Logan Marshall-Green

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly,…

— John Leguizamo

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do,…

— Clancy Brown

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just…

— Jude Law

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your…

— Noel Coward

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been…

— Kirk Douglas

I was doing a lot of drama until I took the comedy role in the series 'Car 54, Where Are You?,' and…

— Charlotte Rae

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the…

— Tom Holland

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in…

— Brendan Gleeson

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank…

— Tony Kushner

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired…

— Garret Dillahunt

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning…

— G-Eazy

It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway… There used to be such a dividing line in the country…

— Julie Andrews

When you're on-stage, you're expected to perform in the bar business. You shake hands. You smile. You're all positive energy: you add…

— Jon Taffer

I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always…

— Felicity Jones

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare…

— Alec Guinness

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

— Stephanie Mills

I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.

— Haaz Sleiman

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

— Denis Lavant

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

— Luiz Bolognesi

I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened.

— Carel Struycken

There's enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.

— Josh Widdicombe

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

— Sheridan Smith

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

— Eric Andre

There are a lot of grey areas in 'The Cry' and the grey is what I'm interested in as an actor.

— Asher Keddie

Actors become disposable. I feel female actors have to back each other.

— Richa Chadha

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

— Natalie Wood

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I guess I've been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

— Kevin Spacey

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

— Rachel Griffiths

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

— Saqib Saleem