Theatre Quotes · Page 67

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep…

— Annabella Sciorra

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It…

— Joel Grey

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

— Robert Englund

I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina'…

— Mahira Khan

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve…

— George C. Wolfe

If you want to be an actor today you have to come prepared with the entire package, which includes acting, dancing, action,…

— Akshaye Khanna

I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which…

— Rajkummar Rao

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way…

— Dito Montiel

In fact, many of us from my generation of actors are in the profession because we were all deeply inspired by Sridevi.

— Rupali Ganguly

I didn't have any connection with movies except for the fact that my father was an actor.

— Athiya Shetty

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

— Lucas Neff

I am totally a director's actor.

— Sridevi

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think…

— Gary Oldman

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as…

— Omar Dorsey

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities…

— Jeff Dunham

It's kind of a perfect mix, Ridley and Denzel, because you have a filmmaker who builds an entire universe in 360, and…

— Fred Hechinger

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

— Viola Davis

I want people to be obsessed with Broadway and theatre as much as I am.

— Frankie Grande

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

— John Wells

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection…

— Richard Rodriguez

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to…

— Michele Lee

I've never had stage fright, that would mean you were paralyzed like a rabbit in headlights and you wouldn't be able to…

— Tess Daly

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

“At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me Dear Madam, you have seen this play; I never saw it till today. You…

— A. P. Herbert

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

— Sanford Meisner

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never…

— Holly Hunter

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people…

— Brendan Gleeson

I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'

— Karla Crome

Forget being an actor-director: we, as citizens, have the responsibility to make the country a better place. And that doesn't mean advertising…

— Soni Razdan

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

— Annie Wersching

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

— Michael Jackson

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

— Sigourney Weaver

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach…

— Laurence Olivier

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

— Bruce Campbell

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of…

— Jesse Eisenberg

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold…

— Dick Powell