Theatre Quotes · Page 55

I always come back to acting.

— Bill Pullman

The actors I admire are character actors.

— Chaske Spencer

We earn quite a lot through stage shows.

— Rahul Vaidya

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

— Rutina Wesley

You know, I come from an acting background.

— Kyle Gass

There can't be competition between actors.

— Pratik Gandhi

I'm not a very good actor.

— Anonymous

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.

— Aya Cash

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

— Kirti Kulhari

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

— Sigourney Weaver

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

— Ira Sachs

I feel happy when people hire me only as an actor.

— Diljit Dosanjh

Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

— Shannon Purser

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

— Lauren Bacall

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre…

— Tim Crouch

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure,…

— Kirsten Lepore

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

— Daryl Hannah

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but…

— Robertson Davies

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

— Jake Shears

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained…

— Spalding Gray

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight…

— Bill Nighy

I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible…

— Wendell Pierce

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over…

— Colin Mochrie

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were…

— John Kani

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel…

— Rupert Friend

It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And…

— Julie Benz

“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -…

— Michael Cerveris

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't…

— Rachel Cusk

As an actor, you're different in every role.

— Ashley Walters

“Who can enjoy acting in an empty theater ?”

— William Bolitho

No space should be safe from theatre.

— John Tiffany

I don't want to die on the stage.

— Wilson Pickett

I don't really see myself as an actor.

— Youssou N'Dour

As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.

— Dean-Charles Chapman

Every Saturday I teach at my drama school.

— Amanda Redman

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

— Charles Horton Cooley