Theatre Quotes · Page 98

So, when I write, I am the last choice as an actor.

— Anoop Menon

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

— Matt Lanter

The professional's love for the theater is less pure than that of the non-professional's.

— Van Heflin

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

— Casey Affleck

I never wanted to be an actor as I wasn't passionate about it.

— Karan Kapoor

It is hard to sit in the theatre and have people turning round and looking at you.

— Jerry Springer

For someone who hates drama, you sure do start a lot of it.

— Anonymous

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

— Keerthy Suresh

Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come…

— Paul Haggis

I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity.…

— Barbara Sukowa

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic…

— Laurie Anderson

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

— Laurence Fishburne

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's…

— Edward Albee

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

— Sarah Bernhardt

I used to work in a hotel kitchen at night and do theatre in the morning. After finishing my night shift -…

— Pankaj Tripathi

I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my…

— Evan Glodell

If something seems like a little venue, don't treat it like that. Do it all. If you're sort of wondering why you're…

— Fred Armisen

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major…

— Jean Reno

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience…

— Naseeruddin Shah

At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really…

— Matt McGorry

“A good actor,' said Sunay in a light theatrical tone, 'is a man who represents the sediment, the unexplored and unexplained powers…

— Orhan Pamuk

In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the…

— Randy Harrison

I am not a television actor, so much love coming my way makes me humble.

— Rahul Vaidya

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

— Juno Temple

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

— Ryan McPartlin

The thing is, is that I hate theatre, but it was how I learnt to sing.

— Thomston

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

— Rupert Everett

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

— Anthony Anderson

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

— Cameron Britton

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

— Val Kilmer

But I want to be an actor who fulfills any roles assigned to me.

— Seo In-guk

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

— Rana Daggubati

“Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock”

— Marja McGraw

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

— Ben Vereen

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

— Anupam Roy

Whenever I'm doing stage, I want to be doing screen, and vice versa.

— Toby Stephens

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

— Leighton Meester

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

— John Gordon Sinclair