Theatre Quotes · Page 59

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

— William Hazlitt

I take musical theater seriously.

— Alice Ripley

I'm just a character actor.

— Dennis Farina

You have to open up on stage.

— Karen O

I just love working with actors in general.

— Treat Williams

I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

— Paul Dano

Society is like school drama

— Craig Williams

As an actor, I love challenges.

— Radhika Pandit

One scene is enough for a good actor to leave his mark in any film.

— Mukesh Tiwari

For an actor to create a different look for every film is not easy.

— Arjun Kapoor

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

— Jim Rash

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the…

— David Morrissey

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

— Michael Gambon

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

— Doug Stanhope

After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

— Atul Kulkarni

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

— Marie Windsor

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the…

— Shekhar Kapur

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or…

— Judy Greer

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at…

— Al Pacino

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget…

— Yann Martel

If it wasn't for musical theatre I wouldn't have met my wife, McFly wouldn't exist, none of it would have happened.

— Tom Fletcher

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be…

— Anupam Roy

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we…

— Vittorio Gassman

It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented…

— Maimouna Doucoure

There's so much confidence and freedom that comes from that way of doing things. Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph make the set…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

This business is filled with really talented actors, and I'm sure there's a lot of guys out there who could have also…

— Elden Henson

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it.…

— David Wenham

“An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty…

— Fred Allen

For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors…

— David Walton

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use…

— Athol Fugard

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

— Terry Pratchett

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

— Gus Van Sant

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.

— Chris Pine

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

— Zooey Deschanel

I want to be always actor.

— Tommy Wiseau

Well, I was a drama kid.

— Dean Norris

We want to be on the biggest stage.

— Martin Odegaard

I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

— Anne-Marie

I'm an actor, I worry about everything.

— Jackie Earle Haley