Theatre Quotes · Page 99

The structure of theatre is always: turn up, do the job, be present and be kind, and work hard.

— Jonathan Bailey

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

— Sylvia Hoeks

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

— Marcus Brigstocke

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

— Luke Wilson

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

— Victor Mature

The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.

— Dianne Reeves

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

— Catherine Deneuve

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't…

— Nolan North

“Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation”

— Anne Bogart

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've…

— Donna Murphy

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But…

— Demi Moore

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I…

— Tatiana Maslany

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I…

— Billy Bob Thornton

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a…

— Sophie Dahl

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater,…

— Katharine McPhee

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with…

— Richard E. Grant

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I…

— William Saroyan

Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of…

— Scott Raab

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and…

— Jodie Foster

While in college, we used to go for art exhibitions, theatre shows and music concerts. I have spent a lot of time…

— Sayani Gupta

As for actors, I would say if you believe in yourself and if you feel that you have something special in you…

— Arjun Mathur

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological…

— Neil Patrick Harris

If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were…

— Paulo Coelho

We had no idea, you're like, an amazing actor, man.

— Jonah Hill

We should be actors rather than trying to be a lead; it will create a healthier atmosphere.

— Nithya Menen

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

— Woody Harrelson

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

— Parvathy

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

— Kurt Fuller

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

— Indiana Evans

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

— Woody Allen

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

— Pratik Gandhi

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

— Kirti Kulhari

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

— Gustaf Skarsgard

Eric and I just don't have drama. We're very happy.

— Jessie James Decker

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

“And you and Kent need to sort out your drama ASAP.”

— Tahereh Mafi