Theatre Quotes · Page 439

When you're an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions…

— Emma Corrin

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

— Clive Owen

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact…

— Kenny Ortega

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years…

— Carole King

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

— Arthur Miller

When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that…

— Greta Lee

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

— Kelly Brook

It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or…

— Radha Ravi

It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or…

— Zachary Quinto

You always agree with other actor beforehand: Are we going to fake it or are you OK with me hitting you? I've…

— Elizabeth Banks

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that…

— Timothy Dalton

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at…

— Gabriel Byrne

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has…

— Christopher Eccleston

One of the things that really drives me as an actor is to be able to to provide some kind of positive…

— Nicholas Galitzine

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end…

— Jon Watts

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I…

— William Fichtner

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking…

— Susan Olsen

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

— Genie Francis

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little…

— Bo Burnham

In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.

— Naseeruddin Shah

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I…

— Steve Buscemi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the…

— Bela Lugosi

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things…

— Christian Lacroix

“Life is like an ongoing theater performance, absolutely everyone has a role; thus, how good are you performing your role?”

— Rodolfo Peon

I'd love to do a project that falls between drama and comedy - a dramedy with hilarious moments.

— Shangela

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

— David Bowie

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

— Amanda Palmer

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But…

— Stephen Schwartz

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind…

— Vittorio Gassman

I like making material that people can relate to and see how I'm going through it or my character deals with it.…

— Minka Kelly

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell…

— Prabhu Deva

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't…

— Nicholas Meyer

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how…

— Wilmer Valderrama

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the…

— Katie Cassidy

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these…

— Keith Carradine

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have…

— Chris Messina

I've got a lot of friends who are actors so even when I don't have auditions of my own, I'll be working…

— Charlotte Hope

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde…

— Kaya Scodelario

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?'…

— Zooey Deschanel