Theatre Quotes · Page 928

It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be…

— Miranda Richardson

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

— Bellamy Young

I went to London for drama school but I hated it.

— Daisy May Cooper

I love directing actors. In the last few years, I have started expanding my directing into workshops for actors who truly want…

— Del Shores

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of…

— Holly Hunter

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

— Bryan Batt

The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being…

— Jonah Hill

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in…

— Birdy

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

— Antony Sher

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

— Billie Whitelaw

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be…

— Gareth Gates

I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor

— Sanaya Irani

I would like to see the big, mainstream actors experiment with their roles.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the…

— Rose Leslie

As an actor, you know you can do so many things. What happens is when you do one thing well, everybody wants…

— Prachi Desai

I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came…

— Hugh Dillon

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

— Patrick Huard

As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

— Holliday Grainger

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

— Chris Evans

From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows…

— Reggie Lee

As an actor, your job is half done when your co-star becomes your friend, especially when it's Judi Dench.

— Ali Fazal

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning…

— Edward Albee

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

— Clint Eastwood