Theatre Quotes · Page 381

What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being…

— Maura Tierney

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

— Amy Poehler

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do…

— Gary Sinise

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody…

— Grace Park

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you.…

— Cody Horn

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty…

— Elia Kazan

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait…

— Elizabeth Perkins

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns…

— Joe Pantoliano

A theater in Berlin asked me if I wanted to do a theater production. Right away I said I wanted to do…

— Peaches

I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand that certain things on…

— Bill Cosby

I would love to do stuff on camera. That's what I want to do. It took me a really long time to…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,…

— William Shakespeare

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing…

— Mandy Patinkin

It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience,…

— Ari Graynor

I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want…

— Robin Tunney

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

— Liam Cunningham

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

— Kenneth Tynan

There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

— Vicky McClure

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom…

— Nolan Gould

People think actors are self-obsessed. I think it's not necessarily an egocentricity...it's just YOU are your business, your product.

— Anonymous

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that,…

— Morgan Fairchild

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is…

— Michael Shurtleff

I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles.

— David Faustino

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell…

— Alan Shearer

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I think that bad drama in a relationship has nothing to do with the individuals, it just really has to do with…

— Sara Quin

“What's the difference between and actor and a writer? When a writer yells "LOOK AT ME!", nobody does.”

— Cain S. Latrani

When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.

— Colin Donnell

There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I…

— Adrian Dunbar

I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub…

— Amitabh Bachchan

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

— Tricia Helfer

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and…

— Dennis Quaid

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

— Laura Wade

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them…

— Keanu Reeves

“6 people + 6 months + 3 cameramen + 1 reality show = infinite drama. I've done the math." - Rose”

— Krista Ritchie

I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural…

— Hilton Als

I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as…

— Laura Carmichael

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

— Neha Sharma

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might…

— Liev Schreiber