Theatre Quotes · Page 256

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

— Nick Gehlfuss

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

— Cat Deeley

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

— Alia Shawkat

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

— Tom Stoppard

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

— Mario Lopez

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

— Tristan Bernard

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

— Steve-O

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

— Spike Lee

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half…

— Thomas Sadoski

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality…

— Albert Hadley

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

— Jennifer Lawrence

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

— Matt Bomer

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding…

— Oren Moverman

In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl...…

— Nicole Scherzinger

There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create…

— Anonymous

I want to be the most famous actor the world's ever seen. I don't want to be able to walk down the…

— Sarah Shahi

After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before…

— Ty Burrell

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious.…

— Tony Kushner

When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As…

— Annette Bening

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time…

— Casey Affleck

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I…

— Ashley Jensen

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

— David Soul

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

— Julia Garner

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

— Beck Bennett

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

— Mark Wahlberg

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

— Nicole Ari Parker

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

— Rain

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

— Candice Patton

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

— Jeffrey Jones

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

— Billy Crudup

Given the choice between 'actor' and 'actress,' 'actor' is a non-gendered word that I use.

— Asia Kate Dillon

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

— Joe Manganiello