Theatre Quotes · Page 236

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

— Anonymous

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

— Jean Giraudoux

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

— Catherine Deneuve

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

— Raashi Khanna

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

— Elia Kazan

As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.

— Tom Hiddleston

I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art.

— Soni Razdan

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

— David Mamet

I don't really believe that all theater needs to be filmed - for some things, the special part of live theater is…

— Marielle Heller

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising,…

— Peter Hedges

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true…

— Robert De Niro

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I…

— Rory Cochrane

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I…

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I was working at a candy-wrapping factory before I became an actor. I admit I snuck some hard candy, which is great…

— Verne Troyer

For someone who works in theatre, the rehearsal is where you discover everything. It is where magic happens, where the script enters…

— Ali Fazal

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater… I have terrible…

— Scarlett Johansson

I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do…

— Morfydd Clark

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make…

— Bryan Cranston

“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is…

— Ruth Padel

“And then sometimes Actors have what they call “ideas.” Usually it involves them talking more, or, in the case of more experienced…

— Tina Fey

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost…

— James Thurber

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You…

— Michael Pena

The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still…

— George Takei

I like to do variations of all kinds of different work. One of my roles in Israel was for the theatre -…

— Meital Dohan

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

— Amy Jackson

I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

— Alan Rickman

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

— Christopher Guest

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

— Simon McBurney

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

— Teller

Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We have some really, really wonderful actors on the horizon.

— Neal Baer

I want to continue acting but I'm also a singer.

— Taylor Momsen

Though my mother gave me the first break, I didn't want to become an actor. I wanted to dance.

— Supriya Pathak

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

— Torrey DeVitto

Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

— Gabriella Wilde

The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.

— Ari Graynor

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

— Catherine Deneuve

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

In the theater you can take your time and allow for people's artistry to surface.

— Amanda Bearse