Theatre Quotes · Page 318

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

— Frank Grillo

Even as a producer, I want to work with certain actors. Now, if they don't want to be a part of the…

— Dino Morea

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun…

— Frankie Muniz

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.…

— R. Kelly

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

— Cameron Diaz

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really…

— Sara Bareilles

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…

— Michael Caine

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to…

— Kevin Kline

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work,…

— Vanessa Paradis

Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing…

— Joseph Mazzello

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in…

— Italia Ricci

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of…

— Edward Norton

This was a seminal moment in my life - my dad took me to see the original production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'…

— Michael Ball

I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know…

— Peter Vack

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience…

— Fay Wray

I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors…

— Scott Raab

I love the company of my family and I like being on stage performing because I'm interested in people.

— Anh Do

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation…

— Lars von Trier

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

— Mark Duplass

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

— Natalie Portman

And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes.

— Lauren Kate

In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that…

— Natasha Rothwell

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

— Tom Stoppard

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end…

— Tyler Hoechlin

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's…

— Miles Teller

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are…

— Scott Speedman

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same -…

— Nolan North

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way…

— Dito Montiel

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all…

— Lance Reddick

It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not…

— Prunella Scales

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding…

— Mike Mills

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you…

— Stephen Lang

I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and…

— Lily Gladstone

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like…

— Kel Mitchell

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

— Peter Weir

“Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played…

— Hermann Hesse

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the…

— Neeraj Kabi

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that…

— Nicole Kidman