Theatre Quotes · Page 501

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since…

— Dexter Fletcher

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

— Shane Koyczan

I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and…

— Jason Robards

I attended theater camps and classes growing up, but there was never any talk of me making a life out of acting.…

— Ainsley Earhardt

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

— Orlando Bloom

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took…

— Jeff Daniels

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that…

— Scarlett Johansson

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty…

— Tracy Letts

There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it.…

— Jennifer Aniston

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person…

— Mekhi Phifer

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV…

— Sasha Roiz

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so…

— Kimberley Nixon

As an actor you have to keep working, were perishable fruit. Its an instrument and if you sit and wait too long…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and…

— Keith Johnstone

I think drama school I was aware because I think the high school I went to was a bit sheltered, a bit…

— Joe Manganiello

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be…

— Wole Soyinka

In college I did theater for my first two years. It was plays, as if it was Broadway, not movies or anything…

— Brandin Cooks

I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the…

— Anthony Heald

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you…

— Daniela Bobadilla

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the…

— Mary McCarthy

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world…

— Evan Peters

It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.

— Morena Baccarin

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught…

— Brian Blessed

I started working right away as a kid, so I didn't have a chance to go to improv school or anything like…

— Kenan Thompson

If you think drama follows you where ever you go, maybe it's time you realize you are the drama.

— Nishan Panwar

To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at…

— Rob Lowe

For me, as an actor, just to keep acting and to keep being able to work and to do different roles and…

— Stephen Hunter

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you…

— Radhika Apte

I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for…

— Terry O'Quinn

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

An actor's life pretty much goes hand in hand with negative feelings like insecurity, envy and self-doubt.

— Arjun Mathur

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20…

— Noah Hawley

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

There are plenty of good drama schools and academies helping children and young people to learn to sing, dance, and act.

— Rachel Shenton

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also…

— Vin Diesel

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll…

— Matt LeBlanc

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long…

— Joan Collins

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so…

— Adam Rapp

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

— Mary-Louise Parker