Theatre Quotes · Page 95

I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.

— Colbie Caillat

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

— Laura Harrier

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

— Michael Chiklis

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

— John Hawkes

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

— Juliette Binoche

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

— John Mortimer

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their…

— Florence Welch

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor…

— Jerry Lewis

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where…

— Bo Burnham

We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the…

— Mike Flanagan

“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty…

— Anthony Powell

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no…

— Eddie Redmayne

I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three…

— Michaela Coel

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement…

— Thomas Sadoski

“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,…

— Jason Seiden

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same…

— Stephen Daldry

Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake…

— Stanley Greenspan

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort…

— William Monahan

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children.…

— Laura Benanti

Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel…

— Matt Letscher

I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time…

— Iwan Rheon

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and…

— Dennis Farina

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

— Richard Gere

When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.

— Charlotte Rae

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

— Taron Egerton

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

— Alan Cumming

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

— Alexis Bledel

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

— Anthony Burgess

When I started my career as an actor, I had no guidance from anyone.

— Suniel Shetty

People want to see actors in funny attire and actors are getting paid to do it.

— Arshad Warsi

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

— Salman Khan

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

— Clint Eastwood

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

— Adam Rapp

“I suppose I shall drop dead in the theater, to a full house, I hope.”

— Hermione Gingold

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

— Thomas Browne

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

— Martin Scorsese

When you're younger, there aren't very many kid actors. It's a lot easier to get jobs.

— Alexa Vega

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

— Francesca Annis