Theatre Quotes · Page 46

It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in…

— Constantin Stanislavski

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me…

— Angus Young

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

— Matt Reeves

I like the show [Factor] because it's horny, but it's not skeevy. Where else are you going to get that nowadays?

— Dennis Miller

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have…

— Kim Cattrall

When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that…

— Greta Lee

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind…

— Ethan Hawke

The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.

— Ari Graynor

We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we'd see which actor got the big one.…

— Kelli Williams

The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray…

— Yevgeny Vakhtangov

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

— Juliana Hatfield

I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do…

— Rachel Weisz

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat…

— Tom Stoppard

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working…

— Melissa McCarthy

Each medium has its own beauty and way of working. While television offers immense reach and long-running shows, films are shorter and…

— Gautam Rode

“I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest…

— Alan Parker

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

— Jason Alexander

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

— Julianna Margulies

I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and…

— John Kani

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

— Su-chin Pak

I went to drama school at New York University.

— Molly Shannon

Acting I never worried about, but it's so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in…

— Valerie Weiss

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly…

— Sam Shepard

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

— Amanda Seyfried

As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find…

— Cedric Yarbrough

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

— Clint Eastwood

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth…

— George Bernard Shaw

Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.

— Hiten Tejwani

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

— Margot Robbie

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in…

— Cate Blanchett

I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that…

— David Lee

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do…

— David Lambert

There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out.

— John Tiffany

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the…

— Cate Blanchett

I'm always studying actors and movies. You can never not do your homework.

— Danielle Rose Russell

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

— Martin Parr

The reason why a filmmaker will invest in a male actor is because he will be able to sustain footfalls in the…

— Nushrat Bharucha