Theatre Quotes · Page 238

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

— Kate Jackson

You couldn't find a group outside of an insane asylum more detached from reality than actors.

— Chuck Woolery

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

— Victoria Mahoney

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

— Reese Witherspoon

It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

— Anjelica Huston

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

— Diana Rigg

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

— Yahoo Serious

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with…

— Colin Firth

I'm not one of those actors who wants to live in some kind of dark character and wants to live in the…

— Steven Pasquale

I'm such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it's really important for me to keep doing…

— Ari Graynor

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

— Ann Dowd

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot…

— George Burns

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor…

— Tina Yothers

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you…

— Finn Wittrock

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement…

— Thomas Sadoski

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as…

— Tom Sturridge

I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin,…

— Josh Young

“If you’re honest with yourself, one of the reasons you moved into an off-campus apartment and didn’t get any roommates is because…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior…

— Steve Antin

It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, "Gee, I don't…

— Jodie Foster

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what…

— Jason Priestley

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't…

— Christopher Abbott

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film -…

— Anthony Hopkins

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

— Annette Bening

An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.

— Jimmy Smits

I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

— Maggie Smith

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

— Don Knotts

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

— Hugo Weaving

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

— George Clooney

They treat kid actors more like an object than persons.

— Judy Norton

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

— Sammo Hung

Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!

— Imelda May

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

— Ana Gasteyer

I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

— Adele

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

— Varun Sandesh

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

— Ron Silver

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

— Barbet Schroeder

As an actor, I try to work in as many films as I can.

— Prateik Babbar

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

— Blake Lively