Theatre Quotes · Page 5

I had no intention of becoming an actor.

— Nicholas Hammond

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

— Michael Ironside

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along…

— Orson Bean

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the…

— Riley Redgate

At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie…

— Joel Edgerton

Stage performing is a dying art form.

— Ronnie Spector

For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel…

— Emma Stone

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My roots are in theater.

— Emma Corrin

The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all…

— Peter Brook

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

— KiKi Layne

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

— Larenz Tate

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each…

— George C. Wolfe

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

— Tuppence Middleton

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

— Edith Evans

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes…

— Joe Mantegna

I am ambitious to do more than what has been offered me. I want to be the best in whatever career I…

— Uday Chopra

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

— Robin Williams

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then…

— Stephanie Seymour

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

— Nana Patekar

I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and…

— Brad Goreski

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to…

— Sonu Sood

As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing…

— Edward Norton