Theatre Quotes · Page 55

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

— Alexander Payne

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before…

— Tim DeKay

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as…

— Patrick Stewart

My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down.

— Joshua Ostrander

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I…

— Ewan McGregor

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

— Celia Imrie

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

— Paresh Rawal

When you are working on the launch of an actor, you have to treat him or her like your own child.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

— Elle Macpherson

For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at…

— Dominic Cooper

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched…

— Chris Pine

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with…

— Taylor Schilling

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

— Charlton Heston

I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by…

— Arvind Swami

The best thing my mum and dad did was to send me to the local youth theatre. I loved that; I felt…

— Nicola Walker

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an…

— Brigitte Nielsen

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the…

— Nick Offerman

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to…

— Andre Holland

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all,…

— Paul Giamatti

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

— James Nesbitt

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want…

— Katie Lowes

I have worked with so many actors, some have been stars, while at times, I have been at a better standing than…

— Abhinav Shukla

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become…

— Felicity Huffman

I was going to Hartford High School and when the theater bug hit, it hit hard and it saved my life. It…

— Tony Todd

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a…

— Joel Barlow

My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are…

— John Tiffany

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

— Walter Hill

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible.…

— Graham Phillips

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

— John Ratzenberger

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The…

— Allison Williams

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can…

— Freddy Rodriguez