Theatre Quotes · Page 293

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your…

— Clint Eastwood

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert…

— Tony Harrison

I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to…

— Nathan Fillion

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

— Andrew Dominik

A good writer takes time to go in-depth into a subject and then comes out with a good script. Then it's the…

— Johnny Lever

I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

— Too Short

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the…

— Conchita Wurst

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

— Ethel Merman

I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has…

— Boman Irani

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a…

— Kenny Ortega

When I first started working in... television, for instance, I didn't know that people who write for television generally choose one: either…

— Cord Jefferson

I started in theatre, moved into film and television, and started doing voice work, which is funny because after a long time…

— Linda Cardellini

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through…

— Dwight Yoakam

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable…

— Zephyr Teachout

I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a…

— Jim Beaver

We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character…

— Tom Junod

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding…

— Kevin Spacey

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing…

— Lennie James

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate…

— Chloe Pirrie

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see…

— Bela Lugosi

As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.

— Allison Williams

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons…

— Vanessa Kirby

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was…

— Bruce Dern

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly…

— Amanda Bynes

I always think as actors, we have the privilege of going to red carpet events and dressing up and having glam teams.…

— Nicola Coughlan

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.…

— Robert Lepage

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because…

— Julia Stiles

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about…

— Rachel Weisz

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying…

— Elijah Wood

Sometimes, during a shoot, an actor might fail to turn up or there might be a need for an actor for a…

— Dileesh Pothan

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be…

— Geoffrey Rush

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into…

— Morfydd Clark

I tend to like the heavier things, especially live on stage. I need that energy and interaction and feeling the audience.

— Mike Portnoy

I have an act I take on the road. That's what saved me. I dont know how most actors make a living.

— Jerry Van Dyke

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

— Zachary Quinto

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with…

— John Lithgow

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and…

— Jamie Linden