Theatre Quotes · Page 58

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

— Dorothy Parker

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

— Harrison Ford

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

— Juliet Stevenson

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.

— Chris Pine

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.

— Penny Johnson Jerald

I am available as an actor across languages.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

As an actor, you're different in every role.

— Ashley Walters

You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.

— David Berman

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

— Owen Wilson

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

— James Avery

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

— Meryl Streep

I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.

— Fahadh Faasil

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

I started acting since 2007 and it has not been easy.

— Arjun Mathur

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

— George Clooney

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

— Tim Crouch

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

— Sam Huntington

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

People say, 'Oh, you do theater!' And I say, 'Honey, I do theater to get better TV and film roles.'

— Leslie Jordan

Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England.

— Jared Harris

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

— Vladimir Horowitz

At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.

— Malik Yoba

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things…

— Martin McDonagh

No matter what you do, if you're on a stage constantly speaking to people, you need to make sure that you have…

— Colton Dixon

But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job,…

— Laura Linney

I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a…

— Jim Piddock

The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to…

— Celia Weston

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change…

— Michael Caine

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you…

— John Travolta

Musical theatre is, for sure, my first love.

— Jordan Fisher

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

— Steven Berkoff

As a player you want to be on the big stage.

— RJ Barrett

I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.

— Olly Alexander

I think every actor has their ups and downs.

— Mohnish Bahl

I wanted to be an actor since I was a child.

— Sanjay Mishra

We have nothing against working with actors.

— Anna Boden

All the world's a stage we're going through.

— Lorrie Moore