Theatre Quotes · Page 505

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

— James Garner

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing…

— Cillian Murphy

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside…

— Jesse Spencer

Vetrimaaran expects his actors to be spontaneous. Since he mostly prefers shooting in live locations, you have to be prepared for everything…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I prefer exiting from projects that don't meet certain conditions, which primarily have to do with the script. When I'm disturbed, I…

— Vishnu Vishal

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we…

— William Shakespeare

The audience had a huge expectation from me in Bengal, and now in Hindi also people have started expecting from me because…

— Rituparna Sengupta

“Operating theaters are not nearly as popular as dramatic theaters, musical theaters, and movie theaters, and it is easy to see why.…

— Lemony Snicket

You can treat musicians like actors - you give them a roadmap but don't tell them what to do, and let their…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to…

— Barun Sobti

I do admire actors who manage to lose huge amounts of weight for roles: you have to have astonishing discipline to do…

— Anna Madeley

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting…

— Julie Delpy

On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gone to college. However, we…

— Mike Vogel

If you go into a forest of film stories, you never can get right through the forest straight ahead; you always have…

— Udo Kier

Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to…

— Mani Ratnam

The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm…

— Willam Belli

I'm working with great directors and actors, and I'm getting to learn so much about the process of acting. I'm extremely grateful…

— Sanya Malhotra

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

— Timur Bekmambetov

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do…

— Oscar Isaac

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I…

— Ed Speleers

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy…

— Andrea Riseborough

I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show…

— Scott Eastwood

I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do…

— Daniel Kaluuya

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I…

— Tania James

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

— Holly Golightly

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I…

— Patrick Stewart

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for…

— Adam Driver

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

— Diane Ladd

In all pomposity and humility, I just wanted to show what I could do as an actor, and I jumped when 'Lootera'…

— Vikrant Massey

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas…

— Harrison Ford

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my…

— Don Rickles

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to…

— Neil Patrick Harris

If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.

— Limmy

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so…

— Lillian Hellman

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and…

— Andrew Scott

I started getting into drama club, and then my studies kind of went out the window. I was actually really studious and…

— Aimee Lou Wood

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

— Michael Gambon

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

— Paul Newman