Theatre Quotes · Page 938

Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off…

— Justin Theroux

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in…

— Jon Bernthal

I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.

— M. Shadows

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

— Ira Sachs

As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for…

— Lamman Rucker

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

— Nicole Maines

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

— Jessica Barden

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life.…

— Matthew Lillard

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

— Toks Olagundoye

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down…

— Lauren Potter

It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into…

— Britney Spears

I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York.…

— Karen Allen

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

— Jason Statham

I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path…

— Misty Copeland

TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.

— Shaheer Sheikh

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to…

— Ansel Elgort

The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite…

— Lucy Griffiths

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

I'd always seen that people who had a piece of paper saying they were an actor as people who are definitely sort…

— Russell Crowe

Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my…

— Colin Morgan

The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like…

— Song Kang-Ho

I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell