Theatre Quotes · Page 73

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

— Sam Riley

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

— Sanford Meisner

There are some fun things about being an actor.

— Mike Faist

I don't think there needs to be constant drama.

— Guy Sebastian

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

— Paulo Costanzo

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

— Laurence Fishburne

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

— Michael Chekhov

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

— John Pinette

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

— Don Rickles

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

— Adam Levine

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

— Michael Clarke Duncan

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

— Colin Quinn

I am a passionate actor, but I am also very practical.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

— Paul Robeson

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

— Alec Baldwin

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.

— Leslie Nielsen

Rehearsals polished me as an actor and thus, I always say that TV will always be a rehearsal for me.

— Sanjay Mishra

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

— Ashley Tisdale

I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

— Too Short

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

— William Shatner

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

— John Cleese

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.

— Serinda Swan

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But…

— Andy Serkis

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With…

— Benicio Del Toro

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to…

— Cate Blanchett

I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated…

— Penny Marshall

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get…

— James Corden

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever…

— Alfred Molina

I would be fooling myself if I thought I would succeed as an entrepreneur. Maybe my base as a theatre artiste gave…

— Ronnie Screwvala

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better…

— Neil MacGregor

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

— John Malkovich

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

— Tony Randall

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

— Timothee Chalamet

People will always respond to high-class drama.

— Maxine Peake

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

— Shenaz Treasury

I am a versatile actor and ready to experiment.

— Rubina Dilaik

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

— Peter Capaldi

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

— Flea