Theatre Quotes · Page 72

Sick of drama? then stop starting it.

— Anonymous

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

— Marian Burros

Love is a drama of contradiction.

— Franz Kafka

John Belushi made me want to be an actor.

— W. Earl Brown

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

— Laurence Olivier

I became an actor to challenge myself.

— Greg Vaughan

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

— Taye Diggs

I'm not an actor, though people say I can act.

— Stephen A. Smith

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

— Michael Pitt

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

— Alicia Silverstone

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

— Asrani

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

— Nick Mancuso

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

— Travis Beacham

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

— Pat Nixon

Because I feel as actors we are required to be vulnerable, it is a part of our job. So the space that…

— Rasika Dugal

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying…

— Carol Burnett

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very…

— Jordan Gavaris

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School…

— John Leguizamo

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to…

— Brian Baumgartner

I am not much of a trained actor. I have to get my brain and heart to go deep inside the situation,…

— Taapsee Pannu

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what…

— David Baddiel

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get…

— Ben Whishaw

I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known…

— Chris Diamantopoulos

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying…

— Paul Greengrass

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're…

— Mel Torme

At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst…

— Paul Merton

“The theater of the absurd represented a contrast to realistic theater. Its aim was to show the lack of meaning in life…

— Jostein Gaarder

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went…

— Twyla Tharp

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy,…

— John Lithgow

I'm an instinctive actor. I don't over prepare.

— Arjun Mathur

I had no intention of becoming an actor.

— Nicholas Hammond

We used to play Jet before we go on stage.

— Luke Hemmings

The theater was my mother and my father.

— Ingrid Bergman

Theatre ticket price capping is not a bad idea.

— Rockline Venkatesh

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

— Kevin Spacey

I have stage fright really badly.

— Jessica Barden

Every actor is a character actor.

— Harry Dean Stanton