Theatre Quotes · Page 943

What I love is when I'm in the theater with audiences and I hear them laugh. That's such a relief to me.…

— Francesca Gregorini

“The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.”

— Nancy J. Friedman

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in…

— William Shatner

I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit…

— Isabel Toledo

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow…

— Stephen Sondheim

I've always just wanted to be taken seriously as a singer-songwriter - not that being an actor takes away from that at…

— Olivia Rodrigo

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It…

— Trudie Styler

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't…

— Peter Capaldi

“The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between…

— Keith Johnstone

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

— Tyler Posey

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how…

— Taylor Sheridan

Some of my best friends now are from drama club.

— Sophie Rundle

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

— Robert Downey, Jr

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the…

— Antonin Artaud

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

— Dwayne Johnson

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

— Tom Holland

I won't be on the stage because my performing days are over. Basically I'm too old. I'm incapable of doing the job,…

— Bez

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

— Vaclav Havel

I love being able to do a bit of theatre, do a bit of telly, and do a bit of film.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

Frankly, I'm an actor right now because of Shah Rukh. When I was in school and even when studying engineering, I used…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I'm not really looking for anything. I don't really have a dream role that I'd like to play. When I read a…

— Lydia Wilson

We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room]…

— Stephen Kendrick

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear…

— Adam Duritz

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

— Elaine Stritch