Theatre Quotes · Page 267

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

— Felicity Huffman

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

— Kathleen Turner

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks.

— Peter Morgan

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

— Vin Diesel

Times are changing fast and we, as actors, need to upgrade our armoury every now and then.

— Vatsal Sheth

I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.

— Ben Schwartz

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

— Stella Adler

The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even…

— James Dean

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

— Pete Postlethwaite

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans. -- Wade Coenen in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

— Rebecca Wells

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

“Alas, the historical name is ‘actor-network-theory’, a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.”

— Bruno Latour

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals.…

— James Dean

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never…

— Edward Burns

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get…

— Andre Holland

I'm a prostitute. Do you know what, it really is basically I just really like to work! I'm thrilled that there's a…

— Jason Graae

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Movies take a lot of time to make, so when I sign onto a project, I ask, do I want to dedicate…

— Kiersey Clemons

My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a…

— Christopher Walken

I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about…

— Jason Robert Brown

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate…

— Jessica Lucas

I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a…

— John Barrowman

'Aurangzeb' for me is a right film, as there is action and drama.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

— Michael Pitt

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

— Alicia Silverstone

Who needs television when you have so much drama on Facebook.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

— Bob the Drag Queen

I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.

— Dave Madden

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

— Melissa Leo

I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.

— Michael Loceff

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

— Asrani

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

— Travis Beacham

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

— Pat Nixon

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

— Nick Mancuso

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin