Theatre Quotes · Page 65

No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.

— Gavin Newsom

I feel like I've always been an actor.

— Stephan James

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

— Anonymous

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

— Bruno Ganz

I'm not opposed to acting. I do like to act.

— Madison Beer

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

“Leave the stage before the stage leaves you.”

— Tamara Karsavina

My roots are in theater.

— Emma Corrin

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

My true goal was to be an actor, was to be on TV. I wanted nothing more.

— Drew Scott

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

— Dennis Farina

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

— Danny Burstein

All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

— Roger Rees

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

— Fiona Shaw

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

— Michael Shannon

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now…

— Brenda Blethyn

I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.

— Atul Kulkarni

“I am also aware of television’s potential for creating a theater for the masses (a subject which in my opinion has not…

— Neil Postman

I've always wanted to make serious films. Comedy's important, it's very good to laugh. But when I look back at all my…

— Omid Djalili

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have…

— Jake Johnson

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in…

— Anonymous

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

— Victor Garber

As actors we are often seen well-dressed and well-behaved in the public eye but we are humans at the end of the…

— Jasmin Bhasin

I was just 19 years old when I did my first film and had no plan to act, or to become an…

— Prateik Babbar

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics…

— John Lahr

I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of…

— Ayad Akhtar

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought…

— Spencer Boldman

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think…

— H. L. Mencken

Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be…

— Jason Robards

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's…

— Mara Wilson

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

— Eileen Brennan

Every actor is itching to act.

— Manoj Kumar

I am essential to the theater,

— George Sanders

I didn't train to be an actor.

— Asher Keddie

Through all the drama, I love my momma.

— Snoop Dogg

Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

— Mary Harron

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

— Paul Giamatti

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

— David Berman