Theatre Quotes · Page 110

People be causing drama in my life. Unnecessarily. Let me live my life...Damn.

— Anonymous

I learn on every set as an actor and a human being.

— Sunny Singh

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

— Lea Salonga

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

— Cat Deeley

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

— Nick Gehlfuss

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

— Jane Lynch

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was…

— Adan Canto

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and…

— Sean Baker

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got…

— Eric McCormack

“You are acting, not being.” Strasberg explained, “I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life,…

— Val Holley

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is…

— Tino Sehgal

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

— Shelley Conn

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that…

— Rita Ora

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film.…

— Michael Haneke

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor,…

— Isla Fisher

I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a…

— Martin Landau

We filmed part of it here at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, and then we filmed the other part of it…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an…

— Seth Gabel

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end…

— Max Irons

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

— Robert Knepper

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

When you spend half the movie wondering where you seen that actor before

— Teen Post

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

— Jamie Parker

“A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing”

— Milan Kundera

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

— Carla Gugino

I'd rather be known as a good human being than a good actor.

— Dharmendra

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

— James Young

As an actor I believe in doing all sorts of genres.

— Gautam Rode

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

— Erik Estrada

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

— Swara Bhaskar

When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.

— Kate Micucci

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

— Andrea Riseborough

I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt.

— Cecily Strong