Theatre Quotes · Page 138

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

— Chandra Wilson

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

— Toby Jones

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

— Laura Michelle Kelly

I think it's not very respectful if I jump into acting when I'm not very good at it.

— Jackson Wang

I am an extremely greedy actor. I want to do all sorts of roles.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Our industry knows how to treat actors who are mothers.

— Esha Deol

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

— Joe Mantello

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a…

— James Garner

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in…

— Natalia Reyes

As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters…

— Waheeda Rehman

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work…

— Janet Montgomery

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally…

— Patricia Arquette

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

— Kevin Richardson

Because I have done different kinds of roles, I hope that people take me as an actor they want to experiment with.

— Abhishek Banerjee

Musical theater, I think, is something one learns both from studying what went before and then actually doing it.

— Stephen Schwartz

The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car,…

— Michael Gambon

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get…

— Cynthia Erivo

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike…

— Edward Albee

Somebody saw me on 'Cheers' and thought that I was an actor playing a part as opposed to a guy just doing…

— Harry Anderson

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make…

— Tony Kushner

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection…

— William Cullen Bryant

I work incredibly hard, and I would say the nature of being an actor involves a lot of studying. Every time you're…

— Liv Tyler

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think…

— Mathieu Amalric

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

— Elton John

I am not considered to be extroverted - except on the stage.

— Bruno Ganz

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

— Christine Lahti

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

— George Santayana

For me, it's important to continue doing good work and proving myself as an actor.

— Nikitin Dheer

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

— Ross Duffer

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

— Julian Fellowes

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

— Anna Gunn

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

— Adam Carolla

There's only drama if you're still giving someone false hope. Remember that.

— Anonymous

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

— Rana Daggubati

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

— Gustavo Dudamel

I was a Shakespearean actor, and a well-paid one.

— Lorne Greene

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

— Dorothy McGuire