Theatre Quotes · Page 31

I came from theater, which is its own beast.

— Isa Briones

Actors, they come and go, you know.

— Martha Plimpton

“Enough of this drama; we have work to do…”

— Fern Michaels

I'm an actor. It's my job.

— Brittany Murphy

As actors, you just go with the flow.

— Caleb McLaughlin

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

— Naseeruddin Shah

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

— Tom Stoppard

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

— Joe Wright

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

— Martin Freeman

I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

— Kajal Aggarwal

Categorisation of actors has become outdated now.

— Kriti Sanon

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

— Michael Douglas

It's fun matching steps with younger actors. It gives me the confidence to keep going.

— Prabhu Deva

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

— Joel Madden

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas

— Josh Lucas

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

— Logan Lerman

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

— Martin Freeman

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or…

— Ian Somerhalder

If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad...…

— Sarita Choudhury

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is…

— Busta Rhymes

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing -…

— Josh Bowman

“Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama,…

— Mark T. Sullivan

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't…

— Oscar Isaac

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the…

— Bryan Fuller

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living,…

— Barry Humphries

There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher…

— Nestor Carbonell

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I…

— Alan Thicke

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I…

— Tyne Daly

Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.'…

— Billy Porter

They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided…

— Robert Pattinson

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent.…

— Jimmi Simpson

I always thought I wouldn't do well on stage.

— Deepti Naval

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

— Samantha Barks

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

— Poppy Montgomery

Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

— Rajkummar Rao

My sister's an actor as well.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

— Charles Horton Cooley

“I love drama--it's so dramatic!”

— Another Cinderella Story Tami

UFC is the biggest stage in the world.

— Kelvin Gastelum