Theatre Quotes · Page 66

Actors are athletes of the heart.

— Antonin Artaud

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I consider myself an actor who is funny.

— Sean Hayes

Actors are such an insecure breed.

— Joshua Leonard

Actor's life is very long.

— Jackie Chan

Actors don't have real value.

— Uwe Boll

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

— Domhnall Gleeson

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

— Kalki Koechlin

What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.

— Jonathan Pryce

When I'm not on stage, I always try to wear something comfy.

— Dahyun

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

— Lacey Chabert

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

— Annie Parisse

People who are graduated and still stuck in high school drama really need a reality check.

— Anonymous

I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

— Steve Antin

I love sitting back and laughing at people who are so caught up in pointless drama.

— Anonymous

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

— Michael Ian Black

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in…

— Arfi Lamba

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait…

— Michael Keaton

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea.…

— Harold Prince

We make movies to be watched in theatres. Online streaming is more of a bonus, to revisit the film.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main…

— John Lithgow

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a…

— Peter Mullan

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical…

— Michael Gambon

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors…

— Nico Tortorella

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good,…

— Dave Gahan

A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Woodie King Jr., in 1970, had started a company called the New Federal Theatre, which was ensconced at the Henry Street Settlement.…

— LaTanya Richardson

At the end of my first year, I realized I wanted to do more drama, so I actually started an extracurricular course…

— Penelope Mitchell

We actors should be given the highest awards for performing in the middle of people. I can prepare in the most crowded…

— Manoj Bajpayee

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else…

— Mani Ratnam

I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and…

— Joel Edgerton

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

— Tom Hooper

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

— Augusto Boal

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.

— Olly Alexander

I'd just like to carry on acting.

— Nicholas Hoult

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

— Bryan Callen

I'm always excited to work with actors.

— Michel Gondry