Theatre Quotes · Page 407

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how…

— David Zayas

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

— Robert Redford

I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.

— Pratik Gandhi

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I…

— Michael Caine

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

— Jeff Goldblum

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

— Sam Rockwell

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

— Asghar Farhadi

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but…

— Amanda Schull

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went…

— Anthony Mackie

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act…

— Mark Ruffalo

I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the…

— Josh Fox

I love to do things that kind of mess with the movie formula that you can always find the right place to…

— Jed Mercurio

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're…

— Laura Benanti

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only…

— Eva Mendes

The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it.…

— Alexander Hanson

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them…

— Serinda Swan

I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'

— Karla Crome

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

— Morris Chestnut

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

— Florence Welch

Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.

— Andrew Shaffer

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

— Nicole Maines

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend…

— Christian Bale

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time…

— Richard Widmark

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

— Dean Haglund

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

— Christy Mathewson

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first…

— Aaron Paul

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that…

— Trevor Nunn

Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour…

— Vir Das

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to…

— Dustin Hoffman

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when…

— Wallace Shawn

Things people say when a movie finishes in the theaters: 5% Awesome movie. 5% that was great acting. 90% I gotta pee!

— Anonymous

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be…

— Jeremy Luke

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident…

— Christine Lahti

As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's…

— Phillipa Soo

My father is a writer and he always made sure that I watch all the plays that were happening in the Tagore…

— Wamiqa Gabbi

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your…

— Jessica Pare

I am an actor who sings off screen for another actor. That is what playback singing is all about.

— Kishore Kumar

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons…

— Noel Gayler