Theatre Quotes · Page 271

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

— Stephen Tobolowsky

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

— Irvine Welsh

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

— Woody Harrelson

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

— Catherine Deneuve

We had no idea, you're like, an amazing actor, man.

— Jonah Hill

The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.

— Dianne Reeves

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just…

— John Digweed

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in…

— Jack Klugman

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do…

— Viggo Mortensen

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

— Don Johnson

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an…

— Frank Grillo

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with…

— Nicholas Sparks

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other…

— Michael B. Jordan

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in…

— Samantha Morton

What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds…

— Evan Rachel Wood

“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a…

— David Mamet

“The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines--the closer to really beginning to act, in short--the more Chinese…

— Arthur Miller

When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things…

— James Franco

I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that…

— Scott Eastwood

I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they…

— Daniel Kaluuya

This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come…

— Adam Baldwin

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

We should be actors rather than trying to be a lead; it will create a healthier atmosphere.

— Nithya Menen

Drama, lies, and tears, cheers to the teenage years

— Anonymous

“And you and Kent need to sort out your drama ASAP.”

— Tahereh Mafi

I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

— Patrick Fischler

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

— Indiana Evans

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

— Woody Allen

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

— Kurt Fuller

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

— Parvathy

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

— Kirti Kulhari

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

— Pratik Gandhi

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Eric and I just don't have drama. We're very happy.

— Jessie James Decker

The actors have to be able to feed each other and inspire each other.

— Romany Malco

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

— Lupita Nyong'o