Theatre Quotes · Page 242

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

— Jack Lemmon

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

— Maximilian Schell

As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

— KaDee Strickland

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

— Miguel Gomes

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

— Matthew Lillard

You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

— Janina Gavankar

“Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage”

— Benny Bellamacina

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

— Harrison Ford

I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a…

— Anna Gunn

As an actor, I should be able to work in any kind of film, even preachy ones, and convince you about that…

— Samuthirakani

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an…

— Jessica Chastain

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow…

— Harold Perrineau

This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have…

— Ashley Walters

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy…

— Sanam Saeed

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and…

— Nick Offerman

I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major…

— Kirstin Maldonado

Today's generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a…

— Ashok Saraf

The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being…

— Jonah Hill

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the…

— Ralph Fiennes

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the…

— Scott Bakula

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing…

— Vincent Paronnaud

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…

— Amy Bloom

In theatres, you're kind of disconnected. Also, it's way too big for the likes of me. Unless you're Robin Williams or someone…

— Norm MacDonald

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each…

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I've witnessed the survival of the theatre several times when it was meant to be dying.

— Harriet Walter

Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.

— Robert Zemeckis

Every actor dreams of getting a second chance to reprise a role.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

— Ryan Kwanten

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

— Larry David

In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.

— Katie Kitamura

The job of an actor is to bring the story to the audience via screen.

— Pratik Gandhi

Life's to short to deal with drama. So ignore the haters, and live life to the fullest.

— Anonymous

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

— Constantin Stanislavski

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

— Peter Weir

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

— Christopher Walken

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

— James Blunt

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

— Sam Neill

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

— Simone Elkeles

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

— Ridley Scott