Theatre Quotes · Page 258

I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics.

— Justina Machado

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

— Danny Huston

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

— Clarke Peters

“Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit”

— Joshua Teya

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

— Kurt Fuller

High school drama has to be one of the most pointless things on the Earth. Grow up.

— Anonymous

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

— Paul Robeson

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele…

— Rebel Wilson

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character…

— Joe Johnston

I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor.…

— Rupert Friend

There are always challenges at every stage in our life, overcoming them is what life is all about.

— Melchor Lim

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does…

— Lynda Obst

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

— Jamie Campbell Bower

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of…

— Lee Grant

I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other…

— Keegan-Michael Key

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take…

— Adelaide Kane

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing…

— John Mahoney

I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors…

— Chris Messina

I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when…

— Jess Weixler

My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that…

— Kirk Cameron

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle.…

— Sarah Shahi

Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's…

— Justin Timberlake

I am known as a good actor and, I dare say, a good politician.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

— Eartha Kitt

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

— Randy Orton

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

— Eric Stoltz

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

— Michael Caine

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

— Alan Bates

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

— Lorna Luft

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

— Antonin Artaud

The first time I went to see theatre, I was in it.

— Paterson Joseph

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

— Cate Blanchett

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

— Martha Plimpton

It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.

— Paul Rust

Oh you hate drama? Please keep dramatically complaining about it.

— Anonymous

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

— John Benjamin Hickey

“to photograph promise, and the moment before full beauty. Then you have expectation; drama.”

— James Runcie

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

— Jesse Eisenberg