Theatre Quotes · Page 249

As an actor, the first day of any production is the most stressful.

— Aidan Gallagher

It's much easier for me to cry and do all those things on the stage than in real life.

— June Brown

Being a TV actor, I have done many roles. Working daily at times gets to you.

— Gautam Rode

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

— Carla Gugino

I think it would be a dream for any actor to play someone like Changampuzha.

— Fahadh Faasil

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

— Kathy Bates

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

— Orville Redenbacher

It's hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really…

— Dan Byrd

So I want to make it clear that I want to be an actress and do versatile roles. I am only trying…

— Tejaswi Madivada

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man…

— Laurence Housman

“Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't…

— Alex London

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

— Michael Caine

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

— Robert Morley

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

— Colm Meaney

“theatre, pioneering artists such as Fatima Rouschdie and Naguib Al-Rihani introduced popular comedies as well as melodramas (Al-Rihani 1889–1948, ‘the father of…

— Tarek Osman

Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that…

— Eric Bana

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or…

— David Tennant

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that…

— Michael Trucco

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really…

— Fala Chen

I feel very fortunate to be currently in the position where I can choose to be an actor, writer, director, or all…

— Lake Bell

I enjoy doing both comedy and drama, as long as I'm not doing something continuously.

— Kirti Kulhari

I have done amateurish stage during my college days.

— Puneet Issar

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

— Humphrey Bogart

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

— Roger Moore

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

— Luke Mably

I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

— Dean Norris

I can't imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.

— Darcey Bussell

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

— John Webster

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

— Wallace Shawn

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

— James Ransone

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

— Ari Aster

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.

— Ty Herndon

I was born to be an actor and I haven't exhausted myself in this particular field.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

— Dylan McDermott

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

— Willem Dafoe