Theatre Quotes · Page 109

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

— Tom Stoppard

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

— Alia Shawkat

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

— Beck Bennett

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

— Julia Garner

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

— David Soul

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a…

— Harvey Fierstein

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Even if actors ask for more money, will producers fulfill their demands? They might just show us the door.

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I…

— Roger Rees

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's…

— Kelvin Fletcher

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

— Billy Bob Thornton

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets…

— James Buchan

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact…

— Ivor Novello

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch,…

— John Lahr

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as…

— Roger Deakins

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to…

— Romola Garai

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to…

— Helen Hunt

Thank God for Deaf West Theater - if it wasn't for them, where the hell else was I going to exercise my…

— Paul Raci

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might…

— Jason Statham

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

— Nicole Ari Parker

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Uta Hagen

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

— Mark Wahlberg

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

— Jeffrey Jones

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

— Rain

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

— Candice Patton

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

“Let me see what you look like on my stage with nothing on.”

— Lauren Blakely

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

— James Earl Jones

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

Only difference between me and other actors is Ive spent more time in jail.

— Robert Mitchum

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

— Marcus Brigstocke

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

— Joel Edgerton

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

— Charlotte Ritchie