Theatre Quotes · Page 143

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

— Melvin Van Peebles

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

— Eckhart Tolle

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

— Lizzy Caplan

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

— Donal Logue

It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.

— Andie MacDowell

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

— Richard Jenkins

“We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors.”

— Frederick Buechner

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

— Dominic Cooper

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

— Stacy Keach

People tell me I'm a drama queen. I don't get why that's a bad thing. If I'm a queen, don't I get…

— Green Monk

A girl who boo hoo's and ba ha's about all the shit in her life that's going on claiming "Too much drama"…

— Anonymous

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

— Richard Wilson

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the…

— Matt Barr

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

— Linus Roache

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are…

— Laura Benanti

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things…

— Hugh Jackman

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie…

— Jenova Chen

This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be…

— Michael Moschen

Obviously, with 'The Room,' I wasn't on set thinking 'I'm going to be Daniel Day Lewis' playing Mark, but explaining how I…

— Greg Sestero

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the…

— Vin Diesel

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so…

— Kerry Bishe

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever…

— Michael Emerson

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

— Nora Fatehi

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

— Kayvan Novak

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

Films like 'Kaamyaab' remind me that I am an actor and they bring me the most satisfaction.

— Sanjay Mishra

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

— Michael Welch

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

— Cherry Jones

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

— Ruth Wilson

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

— Sterling K. Brown

I think action, as a genre, is every actor's dream.

— Ali Fazal

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

— John Barrymore

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

— Hal Holbrook

“Since they are theater people, they do not need to be heard... they only need to be speaking.”

— John Green and David Levithan

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

— Brett Ratner

I wanted to make films before I wanted to be an actor.

— Harris Dickinson

But as an actor, you spend the majority of your life being rejected.

— Douglas Henshall

As actors, if the director doesn't cut, then you just keep going.

— Fala Chen