Theatre Quotes · Page 18

“If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.”

— Derek Jacobi

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and…

— Justin Chon

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in…

— Kresley Cole

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I was always the best actor and best dancer in my college.

— Divya Dutta

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

— Dia Mirza

I could have been insecure in 'Yamla Pagla'... if I wanted to be. With three actors who are amazing beyond belief and…

— Kriti Kharbanda

“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line.…

— Donald Barthelme

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989.…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there…

— Arden Cho

I never wanted to be an actor.

— Moon Bloodgood

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I know a lot of screen actors who think they left it too long to go back on stage and now they…

— Aimee Lou Wood

When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

— Arvind Swami

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

I sort of fell into acting.

— Colin Donnell

You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who…

— Christine McVie

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

— Robert Englund

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

— Zal Batmanglij

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

— Ben Whishaw

Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can…

— Jaime Zevallos

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

— Courtney Hadwin

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal