I love stage actors. There's something special about all…

As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.

— Daniel Gillies

The best leaders dont come down harder on people whose performance is lagging; they come to their aid.

— Anonymous

I think I'm like most people in that there's a performance I do for everybody in my life.

— Alex G

I just want always to move people at every performance. If someone cries, that's brilliant.

— Francesca Hayward

When you're doing eight shows a week, it very much turns into relying on your technique and the job of it.

— Mike Faist

I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind…

— Jane Krakowski

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

— Brooke Shields

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see…

— John Mahoney

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make…

— John Michael Higgins

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters…

— David McCullough

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when…

— Clark Gable

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your…

— William Shakespeare

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under…

— Anson Mount

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a…

— Alan Tudyk

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

— Kate Smith