Theatre Quotes · Page 239

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

— Alan Arkin

I was true to myself because I realized I was a better actor than signer.

— Kay Kay Menon

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

— Asghar Farhadi

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

— Curtis Armstrong

Directing is my first love; turning an actor was rather accidental.

— Dileesh Pothan

I want people to be obsessed with Broadway and theatre as much as I am.

— Frankie Grande

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

— Agatha Christie

“Drama, she'd learned, was like good punctuation: it underscored your point.”

— Kristin Hannah

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

— Jean Kerr

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit…

— Zoe Kazan

You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.

— Kathryn Newton

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as…

— Franka Potente

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

— Danny Masterson

“The person looking at the fire cannot take his eyes off it because the flames of the fire perform a play just…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

People just put a 'mask' to cover their problems. Earth is the biggest stage in universe and we are the 'actors'. We're…

— Anonymous

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

— Lena Waithe

I think casting is really important. Finding the right sensibility for the right part is an art in itself. If you're off…

— Richard Linklater

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing,…

— Betty Gilpin

I look at some of the amazing actors that we celebrate today, who are leading their own shows and movies and writing…

— Simone Missick

When you are in every scene of a movie - which I must say I really much prefer - you have more…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going…

— Clint Howard

I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in…

— Steven C. Harper

For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not…

— James Mangold

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you…

— Natalie Portman

I've had the opportunity to work as an actor and tell stories that transform.

— Malik Yoba

I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.

— Dean McDermott

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

— George Jean Nathan

When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.

— Sam Levinson

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

— Samantha Isler

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

— Phillipa Soo

Theatre has always been ahead in terms of colourblind casting.

— Sophie Okonedo

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

— Andrew Scott

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

— BD Wong

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

— Peter Brook

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama

— Iyanla Vanzant

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

— Aaron Paul

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

— Jasmin Bhasin

“some kids can't do drama because their life is a lie”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

— Jim Carrey