Theatre Quotes · Page 255

The world's a theater, the earth a stage, Which God and nature do with actors fill

— Proverb

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

— James Nesbitt

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm always studying actors and movies. You can never not do your homework.

— Danielle Rose Russell

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

— Maggie Siff

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

— Yael Stone

“Let me see what you look like on my stage with nothing on.”

— Lauren Blakely

I don't consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because…

— Nani

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a…

— Berenice Bejo

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for…

— Henry Rollins

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

— Elena Anaya

“Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.”

— Janet Fitch

I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small…

— Cody Fern

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the…

— Jaya Prada

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor.…

— Santiago Cabrera

When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake…

— Alexandra Daddario

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in…

— Jess Weixler

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the…

— Clive Thompson

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your…

— Carrie Coon

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to…

— Bailey Chase

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is…

— Tammy Blanchard

“A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism—and vice versa. In cinema—as in life—the text, the words, are refracted…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

— Charlotte Ritchie

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

— Marcus Brigstocke

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

— Joel Edgerton

Only difference between me and other actors is Ive spent more time in jail.

— Robert Mitchum

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

— James Earl Jones

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

— Lea Salonga

I learn on every set as an actor and a human being.

— Sunny Singh

People be causing drama in my life. Unnecessarily. Let me live my life...Damn.

— Anonymous

When you spend half the movie wondering where you seen that actor before

— Teen Post

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

— Robert Knepper

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

— Jane Lynch