Theatre Quotes · Page 939

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to…

— David Small

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

— Angus T. Jones

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

— Max Greenfield

When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I…

— Joe Cole

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

— Dean Norris

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The…

— Deborah Cox

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do…

— Michelle Branch

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

— Shraddha Srinath

As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get…

— Brie Larson

I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when…

— Meital Dohan

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

— Mamie Gummer

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor -…

— Christian Bale

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

— Elia Kazan

When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

— Adam Rapp

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you…

— Luke Evans

I have missed my fans so much and, above all, have wanted to appear in dramas.

— Joo Won

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters,…

— Damian Lewis

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

— Elia Kazan

There are a lot of people at drama school that come from inherited wealth and it's an easier ride. I had to…

— Nicola Coughlan

I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

— Anne-Marie

My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.

— David Jason

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about…

— Anthony Hopkins

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

— Russell Peters