Theatre Quotes · Page 400

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

— Sanya Malhotra

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

— P. L. Travers

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you…

— Jackie Schaffer

If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

— Jeff Brooks

When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up…

— Trevor St. John

I'm extremely happy to be doing different projects, taking up diverse roles that allow me to explore my own potential as an…

— Catherine Tresa

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking,…

— Abby Brammell

The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that…

— George C. Wolfe

I'm a natural born show off. I love performing, and at school we had a really good music scene and an even…

— Al Murray

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time…

— Dwayne Johnson

If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from…

— Jeremy Renner

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to…

— Patrick J. Adams

I grew up doing musical theater. So, I was immediately attracted to the music and performance aspects of it. That fact that…

— Chris Colfer

Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by…

— John Lahr

A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama - everything is rolled…

— Ne-Yo

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until…

— Carice van Houten

After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television…

— Rajkummar Rao

Every actor must go through the process of learning and not just be in a hurry to become famous. They should learn…

— Pankaj Kapur

It's hard to work, in general, in our business, on more than one thing. How some actors go from back-to-back films, I…

— Faith Ford

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

— Roger Allam

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want…

— Lee Min-ho

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

— Ronnie James Dio

I am the most senior actor in 'Devdas,' yet I was not invited to Cannes. I guess these things happen in the…

— Jackie Shroff

At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.

— Malik Yoba

When you are working on the launch of an actor, you have to treat him or her like your own child.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I want to become an actor whose productions will get people to say, 'there are lives like that,' when they watch me,…

— Seo In-guk

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

— Nicole Byer

As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and…

— Zhang Ziyi

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

— Benjamin Bratt

I'm a normal working actor - just the way I want it. I have never been the one to want the fame…

— Tony Revolori

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models…

— Diljit Dosanjh

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

— Tech N9ne

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never…

— Brian Eno

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

— Alan Rickman

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I agree that some of my performances in America, apart from having drama and excitement, have been a little under my estimation…

— Naseem Hamed