Theatre Quotes · Page 54

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the…

— Trey Anastasio

It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of…

— Phil Daniels

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

— Joe Dempsie

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

— Dante Ferretti

I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think…

— Steve Dildarian

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has…

— Brian Greene

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

— David O. Russell

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

I dont like to repeat myself as an actor.

— Joe Lando

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

— Indiana Evans

Anything can happen in theater.

— Leslie Uggams

I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

— Christina Ricci

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as…

— Brenda Blethyn

'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective…

— Arfi Lamba

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

— Emmy Rossum

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the…

— Sigourney Weaver

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

— Lucas Cruikshank

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.…

— George Eliot

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable…

— Zephyr Teachout

I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within…

— Zac Posen

My love of theatre began at a very early age.

— Amanda Redman

'Ramayan' was my first show which propelled me as an actor and helped me gain visibility.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all…

— Rinko Kikuchi

I think that an actor shouldn't work from a place of fear, because it'll show in your work. You should work from…

— Rutina Wesley

The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out…

— Ian Mckellen

It's less frightening to do television, theatre is very nerve-wracking, very raw.

— Helen Baxendale

I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor,…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

— Rupert Everett

Seeing other people perform inspires me. I couldn't be a good performer if just relied on my own talents. Seeing what other…

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

I went to see a children's matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the…

— Robert Englund

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

— Sara Paxton

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well,…

— Hank Azaria

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with…

— Mawra Hocane

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

— Jason Alexander

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

— Gene Wilder

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings…

— Charlize Theron

My PAST is just a MEMORY , my FUTURE will be a HISTORY . I'm the DIRECTOR and the ACTOR in my…

— Baby_anonymous

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

— Wentworth Miller