Theatre Quotes · Page 97

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

— Miranda Cosgrove

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

— Judi Dench

I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.

— Ed O'Neill

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

— A. J. Bowen

I came out of the Army determined that I would be an actor.

— Joe Don Baker

What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.

— Lisa Lampanelli

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

— Victor Hugo

I never had a boundary as an actor and I am open to interesting scripts.

— Shweta Menon

You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.

— Kathryn Newton

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

— Jean Kerr

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television…

— Bel Powley

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different…

— Cameron Monaghan

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that…

— Brad Hall

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of…

— Matt Lauria

My parents were struggling actors who had a hard time getting work. That's why I hesitated about getting into acting, I had…

— Camila Morrone

The first time I sat in a theater and watched myself on a screen was an out-of-body experience. It blew my mind.

— Stephan James

I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles, and you have to…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but…

— Eddie Marsan

“On the other hand, identification as a relationship of audience to performance disguised the arbitrarily constructed nature of the performance and encouraged…

— John Fiske

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of…

— Jeffrey Wright

I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule…

— Corey Reynolds

Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together.…

— Joey King

Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play.…

— Brad Leland

In terms of watching other directors, it's more like I go on set now, and I'm prepared, as an actor, and ready…

— Shiri Appleby

I'm primarily an actor and only make documentaries when I see a story others have missed.

— Keith Allen

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

— Casey Affleck

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

— John Wilmot

“7. LOVE YOURSELF More than you love your drama.”

— Jen Sincero

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

— Jerry Herman

I got rejected from all the good drama schools first time.

— Alex Sharp

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

— Sandra Bullock

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

— Salim Akil

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

For an actor like me, there are very few options to choose from.

— Varun Sandesh

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

— Melissa George

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

— George C. Scott

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

— Scott Glenn

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley