Theatre Quotes · Page 344

If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre…

— Jeff Britting

When I went to theater school, most of the people I graduated with aren't working. I've consistently worked and made a good…

— Karan Soni

Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].

— Stanley Kauffmann

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

— Sofia Coppola

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting…

— Gary Oldman

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and…

— Jefferson Mays

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Working with young actors is really going with trust. I never see them act beforehand. Because that's not their job. It's my…

— Celine Sciamma

My very first friend was my stand-in, who's a very dear friend to this day, and she kind of saved my ass.…

— Olivia Williams

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want…

— Steve Guttenberg

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet…

— David Lambert

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be…

— Matthew Lillard

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first,…

— Carol Kane

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For…

— Patrick Stewart

That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your…

— Jason Clarke

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons

I've had a lot of trolling on Instagram, things I can't even repeat on air. The biggest shock was when it was…

— Shirley Ballas

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the…

— Tony Randall

I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with.

— Little Simz

I love being on stage and connecting with 2000 people, but you don't really see me that often at the Logies and…

— Anh Do

I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot…

— Brent Sexton

To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor…

— Zeenat Aman

There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of…

— Karen Allen

My school entered a competition to perform a short play at the National Theatre. We won, I got scouted and I haven't…

— Dylan Llewellyn

On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People…

— Khandi Alexander

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose…

— Rebecca Hall

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's…

— Jacqueline McKenzie

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

— Greg Giraldo

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what…

— Nikki Cox

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a…

— Simon McBurney

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with…

— Josh Brolin

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

— Chad Stahelski

I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make…

— Cordae

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep…

— Brian Blessed

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and…

— Dave Annable

As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me…

— Josh Holloway

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

— Rob Lowe

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get…

— William Monahan