Theatre Quotes · Page 100

As an actor, if you have done theatre, the magic of it never leaves you.

— Himani Shivpuri

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

— Christian Bale

I went East to become an actor and where do I end up? Being a cowboy in a Western.

— Joe Don Baker

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

— Clive Owen

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

— Pamela Adlon

I get such a kick out of watching young actors develop. I just love it.

— Amanda Redman

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

— Brad Parscale

Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.

— Saqib Saleem

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man…

— Hayley Atwell

I have done comedy on stage so when I got the chance to do it in cinema, I was extremely thrilled.

— Atul Kulkarni

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement…

— Stephen Daldry

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on.…

— Steve Guttenberg

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and…

— Juliet Stevenson

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being…

— Robert Maillet

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

— Paul Bettany

I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I…

— Scott Michael Foster

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first…

— Neil Simon

“Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah . I take the stage to the…

— Patton Oswalt

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know…

— Yoko Ono

“As soon as my watch showed 5:00 p.m., I walked in. Gene was at the lectern of the darkened theatre, still talking,…

— Graeme Simsion

Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors…

— Rob Manuel

Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to…

— Lauren Beukes

My family went to see a pantomime called 'Give a Dog a Bone' when I was about five. My aunt was the…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.

— Ray Bradbury

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

— Benjamin Bratt

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

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

— Donnie Wahlberg

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

— Randeep Hooda

I loved the movie theater, so I always saw a lot of movies.

— Ed O'Neill

When I was about 18 or 19, I told my father that I want to be an actor, and he was shocked.

— Prabhas

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

— Edith Head

As an actor, I would love to do an out and out comedy.

— Huma Qureshi

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

— Bryan Cranston

As an actor I like to play everything from villain to comedian.

— Satish Kaushik

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage,

— Peter Brook

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.

— Shefali Shah

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

— Clark Gable

I never approach an actor till I have finished the script.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya