Theatre Quotes · Page 128

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

— Christian Camargo

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

— Scott Adsit

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

— Jerry Hall

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

— KiKi Layne

Ever since I became an actor, I wanted my film to release on Eid.

— Saqib Saleem

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

— Jim Carrey

Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.

— Jason Priestley

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

— Peter Weir

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you…

— Stephen Lang

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding…

— Mike Mills

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and…

— Lily Gladstone

After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like…

— Kel Mitchell

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do…

— Gene Wilder

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of…

— Carl Weathers

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in…

— Anna Camp

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to…

— Freida Pinto

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience…

— Elisabeth Moss

My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming…

— David Suchet

“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to…

— Lynn Nottage

When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name…

— Jason Momoa

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for…

— John Locke

Actors don't have to be conscious all the time or up their game when it comes to fashion.

— Sanya Malhotra

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

It's ideal as an actor to be able to command the language you're having to use.

— Emma D'Arcy

Jason Schwartzman's, like, one of my favorite actors, for sure.

— Johnny Simmons

I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.

— Andrea Jeremiah

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

— Denzel Washington

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

— Sam Mendes

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

— Rod Taylor

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

— Everett McGill

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

— Ringo Starr

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

— Niels Bohr

There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.

— Erica Durance

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

— Augusto Boal

I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.

— Aneurin Barnard

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

— Jamey Sheridan