Theatre Quotes · Page 70

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my…

— Jonah Hill

“People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements.…

— William Missouri Downs

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

— Greg Giraldo

I think, no matter how successful you are, there is some struggle of one kind or the other for every actor at…

— Kalki Koechlin

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -…

— Michael Cerveris

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

— Sabrina Bryan

I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and…

— Takashi Miike

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which…

— Valorie Curry

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not…

— Corey Stoll

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.…

— Tess Gerritsen

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

— Jodie Comer

As an actor, it's hard to get work. Sometimes you have to make do with the jobs that you get.

— Colin O'Donoghue

I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you…

— Todd Solondz

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

If I'm in a restaurant, and someone recognizes me and asks for a signature or a photograph after a drink, that's good…

— Ken Watanabe

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

— Nicolas Cage

Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that…

— Patrick J. Adams

I have not done much as an actor. There is no end for an artist, and my best is yet to come.

— Sridevi

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

— Steven Shainberg

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

— Juno Temple

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

— Bryan Batt

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put…

— Brian Ortega

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen,…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That…

— Chadwick Boseman

Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.

— Chris de Burgh

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

— Johnny Flynn

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

— Amy Adams

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the…

— Harold Prince

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.

— Theophilus London

I love the stage and try to balance it out with movies. If you take the stage away from me, then nothing…

— Anupam Roy

In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing…

— Jess Weixler

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool…

— Gloria Swanson

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally,…

— John Lahr

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

— Tahar Rahim

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

— Lena Dunham

I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with…

— Gok Wan