Theatre Quotes · Page 121

I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

— Norm MacDonald

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

— Jeremy Renner

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

— Navi Rawat

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.

— Rosamund Pike

The actors have to be able to feed each other and inspire each other.

— Romany Malco

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

— Bobby Deol

I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor.

— Jake Paul

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

— Sam Mendes

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love…

— Jay Kay

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

— Lady Gaga

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That…

— Chadwick Boseman

The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not…

— Saswata Chatterjee

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that…

— Taron Egerton

I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world,…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising…

— Ray Fearon

I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested…

— Willem Dafoe

Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the…

— Griselda Gambaro

I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up…

— John Gallagher, Jr

I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came…

— Peter Vack

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite…

— Pete Townshend

“Because the actor always moves among and in relation to other acting beings, he is never merely a "doer" but always and…

— Hannah Arendt

No one likes to think of themselves as a one-trick pony as an actor, but on the other hand, it's nice to…

— Robert Picardo

Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.

— Kevin Macdonald

A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

— Jack Lowden

Before you start making a movie, make sure you have a great actor.

— Anonymous

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

— Kapil Sharma

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

— Marcus Brigstocke

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

— Victor Mature

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

— Luke Wilson

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

— Sylvia Hoeks

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

The structure of theatre is always: turn up, do the job, be present and be kind, and work hard.

— Jonathan Bailey

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

— Woody Harrelson

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval

We should be actors rather than trying to be a lead; it will create a healthier atmosphere.

— Nithya Menen

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

— Itzhak Perlman

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.

— Dianne Reeves