Theatre Quotes · Page 85

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

— Joss Whedon

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

— Lee Norris

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

— Ernie Hudson

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

— Grimes

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

— John Adams

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

— Andy Warhol

I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.

— Tom Payne

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as…

— Sean Penn

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be…

— Charles Michael Davis

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew…

— Susanna Thompson

When I'm on stage, I do very much feel like I'm Cinderella, which is kind of how I deal with it.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's…

— Harold Pinter

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

— Randy Rainbow

I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never…

— Tobias Segal

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some stuntmen become actors, but Hollywood is a caste-oriented society. Most of the time you just don't have the opportunity to get…

— Hal Needham

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of…

— Bertolt Brecht

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going…

— Laura Wade

I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produced. Then…

— Chris Wood

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more…

— Erika Christensen

That's very important to me as well: presentation and how people perceive you, the visual of how things look, your posture. I…

— Judd Apatow

I just enjoy the filmmaking side of things. I feel like when you're an actor, sometimes you're in other people's hands and…

— Carrie Preston

I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

— Sandra Oh

I'm not an actor. I leave proper acting to proper actors.

— Lee Evans

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

— Fred Allen

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

— Tim Daly

I've directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It's just a hat I put on.

— Malik Yoba

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

— Stella Adler

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

— Kerry Bishe

Even in the wildest of my dreams, I didn't expect this love and affection as an actor.

— Nani

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

— Dylan Moran

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

— Gregory Harrison

When things come to an end in drama, I'm usually ready to walk away and keep walking.

— Asher Keddie

I hate being late. I hate hysteria. I hate last-minute drama.

— Rick Owens

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

— Giles Matthey

I would like to do films where I will be remembered after people leave the theatres.

— Urmila Matondkar

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

— Robert Knepper

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

— Audrey Tautou