Theatre Quotes · Page 137

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.

— Robin Benway

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

— Patrick J. Adams

I want to tackle the award-winning films. I want to be seen as an actor-actor.

— Julian Dennison

I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.

— Kriti Sanon

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

— Noma Dumezweni

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs…

— Roseanne Barr

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who…

— Martin Freeman

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and…

— Kenny Chesney

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms…

— Tim Crouch

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become…

— Dwayne Johnson

My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my…

— Karen Fukuhara

When I was younger, I always was like, 'I want to be a serious actor.' I wasn't interested in doing a Disney…

— Spencer Boldman

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner…

— Larry Moss

There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard…

— Brandon Jay McLaren

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play…

— Martin Landau

I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it.…

— Laura Dern

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities…

— Jeff Dunham

It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take…

— Judy Norton

I'm doing The Physicists, which is great, and I do have my agent to thank for that because a lot of agents…

— Miranda Raison

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

— Heather Matarazzo

I had destroyed myself as an actor with my drinking habit in the past.

— Dharmendra

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

— Cab Calloway

“The boy was a trained actor, letting me see only what he wanted me to.”

— Jenny B. Jones

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

— Amy Adams

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be on stage.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.

— Phyllida Lloyd

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

— Jeremy Irons

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

— Peter O'Toole

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

— Demba Ba

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

— John Boyega

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

— Travis Fimmel

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

— Ang Lee