Theatre Quotes · Page 14

Theatre is my first love.

— Puneet Issar

I get to share the stage with some of the best.

— Brett Young

I don't like actors, I like women.

— Carlo Ponti

I am not a greedy film person even as an actor.

— Manoj Kumar

My father was so against me becoming an actor.

— Wendell Pierce

We lived and breathed acting.

— David Naughton

Acting kind of chose me.

— Isabel Lucas

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

— Karla Crome

I love live theatre, it's always thrilling and exciting.

— Prunella Scales

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

— Powers Boothe

As an actor I don't like to keep things the same.

— Nigel Hawthorne

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

— Alison Goldfrapp

My film career was always to support my theater career.

— Kim Cattrall

I thought actors were born in Hollywood. I didn't know how to go about it.

— George Eads

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

— Kayvan Novak

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

— Simon Callow

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't…

— Ron White

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

— Jennifer Lawrence

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

— Nelsan Ellis

Here's the thing about drama: once you stop caring what people say,it will all go away.It's that easy.

— Abhishek Tiwari

When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give…

— Suriya

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I…

— Iwan Rheon

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

— Jim Parsons

I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the…

— Rupert Friend

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell,…

— Imtiaz Ali

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional…

— Elliot Cowan

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was…

— Vinny Guadagnino

I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed.…

— Andre Øvredal

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light.…

— Bette Midler

I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that…

— Kevin Rahm

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That…

— Nathan Fillion

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and…

— Bryan Cranston

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

— Yvonne Orji

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

— Harrison Ford

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

— Jeremy Piven

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

— Joe Lando

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

— William Congreve

It's fun to get back to acting.

— Debbie Reynolds

I like horror movies, dramas and action movies.

— Miguel Almiron

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

— Kat Dennings