Theatre actors Quotes

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

— Robert Englund

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are…

— Benicio Del Toro

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

— Barbara Stanwyck

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

— Shaun Sipos

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

— Franco Nero

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in…

— Peter Brook

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

— Thornton Wilder

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

— Marlon Brando

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

— Max von Sydow

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're…

— Laura Benanti

I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike…

— Willem Dafoe

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

— Anonymous

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

— William Shakespeare

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

— Michael Gambon