Theatre Quotes · Page 261

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

— Jack White

I was the first actor from Bihar to become a film star.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

— Jefferson Mays

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

— Jim Sarbh

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.

— Rahul Roy

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

— Mathieu Amalric

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I went to London for drama school but I hated it.

— Daisy May Cooper

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going…

— John Barrowman

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

— Pratik Gandhi

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and…

— Courtney B. Vance

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of…

— Andy Serkis

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild…

— Jackie Earle Haley

Any actor in musicals would probably want to play Fagin or maybe Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

— Omid Djalili

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of…

— Hugh Grant

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

— Taron Egerton

The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother…

— Drew Fuller

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your…

— Kerry Bishe

Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity…

— Dean O'Gorman

If you fail to make a mark, you might not get good work later. So, it is important for every actor to…

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not…

— John Calvin

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the…

— Anthony Zerbe

The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from…

— Joseph Chaikin

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and…

— Louis Leterrier

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

— John Benjamin Hickey

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

— Martin Freeman

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

— Vincent Cassel

I wanted to be an actor when I was young, and I wanted to be a detective.

— Susanna Reid

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

— Elia Kazan

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

— George Jean Nathan

I can do a film only if it excites me as an actor.

— Anushka Sharma

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine

I'd rather be known as a good human being than a good actor.

— Dharmendra

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

— Carla Gugino

“A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing”

— Milan Kundera

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

— Jamie Parker

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

— Justin Hartley

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

— Aaron Eckhart

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

— Cecily Strong