Theatre Quotes · Page 80

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

— James Purefoy

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

— Adam Driver

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

— Michael Ball

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

— Marlon Brando

It is very important for actors to maintain a variety in their body of work.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

— Ashton Kutcher

My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to…

— Beanie Feldstein

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do…

— Frank Rich

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things…

— Minnie Driver

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

— J. J. Cale

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the…

— David Walton

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.

— Lily James

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.

— Leslie Nielsen

Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.

— Stephen Amell

I didn't know I was going to go into musical theater necessarily. It was never planned. I just kind of fell into…

— Carmen Cusack

The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the…

— Harold Clurman

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make…

— Martin McDonagh

Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I…

— Colin Meloy

To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect…

— Pooja Bhatt

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a…

— Jennifer Sky

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably…

— Vernon Howard

January 4, 1943, is when I became a professional actor-cum-thespian.

— Bernard Cribbins

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

— Jessica Pare

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

— George Clooney

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

— Bindi Irwin

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

— Michael Sheen

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

— Matt Long

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

— Gary Cole

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

— Anonymous

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

— Laura Linney

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

— Gedde Watanabe

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

— David Oyelowo

I just felt good working with peer actors around my age.

— Lee Je-hoon

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

— Richard Donner