Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors…

In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an…

— Hannah

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a…

— Ralph Waite

Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you on the…

— Hilary Mantel

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

“Regardless of what comes and goes on the stage, the stage is always just there. The people of the world are all actors, but…

— Woo Myung

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each…

— Rachael Stirling

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and…

— Gary Sinise

“Who can make sense of the roles we play? If I could draw any conclusion about the long, depressing slog of human progress, it’s…

— James Lee Burke

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great…

— Lesley Manville

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they…

— Anonymous

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been…

— Yul Vazquez

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a…

— Marion Cotillard

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if…

— Robert Greene

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

— Valerie June