Theatre Quotes · Page 88

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

— Elton John

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

— Joe Mantello

Our industry knows how to treat actors who are mothers.

— Esha Deol

I am an extremely greedy actor. I want to do all sorts of roles.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I think it's not very respectful if I jump into acting when I'm not very good at it.

— Jackson Wang

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

— Toby Jones

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

— Laura Michelle Kelly

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy…

— Sanam Saeed

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre.…

— Antony Sher

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to…

— Cyndi Lauper

Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no,…

— Olga Kurylenko

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way…

— Zelda Fichandler

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing…

— Abbie Hoffman

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to…

— Laurence Fishburne

It's not that an actor needs to be pampered so much as that one needs to provide a nurturing environment that is…

— Rekha

At one time, smaller, and story-heavy films were not appreciated much but exposure has made the audience aware of what great story-telling…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have…

— Steven Spielberg

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there…

— Diana DeGarmo

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't…

— Tracy Letts

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused…

— Jennifer Garner

“I saw myself as a person that wanted to build their own house and was aware that I needed to have all…

— Teddy Hayes

I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my…

— William Hogarth

When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy…

— James Spader

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

— Chandra Wilson

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

— Travis Fimmel

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

— Ang Lee

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

— Jeremy Irons

In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be on stage.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

— Amy Adams

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

— John Boyega

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

— Peter O'Toole

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

— Demba Ba

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

— Cab Calloway

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

“The boy was a trained actor, letting me see only what he wanted me to.”

— Jenny B. Jones

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

— Heather Matarazzo