Theatre Quotes · Page 471

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but…

— Daren Kagasoff

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want…

— Erika Eleniak

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino…

— Sam Rockwell

As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity.

— Amala Akkineni

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely…

— Viola Davis

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with…

— Jerry Hall

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

— Rob Urbinati

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I had done some community theater plays and I just had so much fun doing it. I was a really shy kid…

— Charlie Plummer

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form…

— Gene Kelly

“I think most of us have many personas inside us at the outset, but over time we lean to the one that…

— Jane Fonda

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something…

— Ridley Scott

I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work.…

— Will Poulter

I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a…

— Sia

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being…

— Rob Lowe

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

— Noah Emmerich

Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people…

— Jennifer Nettles

I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the…

— Sarah Alexander

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

— Shoojit Sircar

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that…

— Mariska Hargitay

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the…

— Francois Truffaut

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and…

— Robert Rinder

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting…

— Joel Edgerton

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

— Chevy Chase

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

— Leon Askin

I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again…

— Hayley McFarland

I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.

— David Baddiel

I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances…

— Erica Durance

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

— Joe Morton

As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be…

— Anthony Mackie

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

— Annie Parisse

It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to…

— Caterina Murino

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

— Anonymous

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up…

— Steven Yeun

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that…

— Seth

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing…

— Rachael Harris

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the…

— Igor Stravinsky

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but…

— John Lithgow