Theatre Quotes · Page 82

That stage in your friendship where you can insult them:)

— Ms_shy_fly

I am a very blessed actor because I have always got the chance to portray various characters.

— Manini Mishra

I'm really lucky to work with such special actors.

— Lynne Ramsay

Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

— Joe Morton

Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.

— R. Madhavan

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

— Mandy Patinkin

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

— Rupert Everett

I started to view theatre like a spiritual experience. You're on stage saying somebody else's lines, but you're saying them with full…

— Jim Sarbh

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

— Vir Das

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

— Idris Elba

As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

— Laura Dern

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my…

— William Moseley

I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it…

— William Jackson Harper

My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until…

— Annie Potts

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and…

— Zachary Knighton

Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations…

— Fred Willard

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that…

— Lindsay Mendez

I'm an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I'm in this business…

— Manoj Bajpayee

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows…

— Wallace Shawn

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I…

— Paul Bettany

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew…

— George Lopez

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre…

— James Belushi

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

— Al Jourgensen

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

— Coby Bell

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

— Pratik Gandhi

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

— Jet Li

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

— Pernell Roberts

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

— Bruce Willis

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

There are some actors that I know I won't do a film with no matter how good the film is.

— Ileana D'Cruz

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

— Domhnall Gleeson

“Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.”

— John Yorke

A lot of actors go crazy if they're not working, but I guess I'm a little lazy.

— Fred MacMurray

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

— Herbert Hoover

I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.

— Kaya Scodelario

“Some situations recognize me as a good actor though I want to be true to everyone!”

— Nelson Jack

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

— Ray Liotta