Theatre Quotes · Page 150

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

— Michael Douglas

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

“I didn't ask for your résumé,theater freak. You people love to talk, don't you.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

It is the director's vision, and as actors, we are just extensions of that.

— Namrata Shirodkar

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

— Heather Graham

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

— Michael Ritchie

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

— Logan Lerman

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to…

— Penny Marshall

I like watching the other actors, but the hard thing about watching yourself is that the performance is done, and no matter…

— Linda Cardellini

The actor should understand the script and come prepared to play the role. At the same time, they should be flexible enough…

— Rajiv Menon

Anyone who has watched 'Premam' in theaters would understand the camaraderie between the members on and off the screen and that's what…

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

— Austin Peck

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'm very involved in all of my social media activities. I'm not an actor. I play myself, and I take that very…

— Jon Taffer

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

— Amanda Schull

I got a grant for the Old Vic Theatre School in London, which had just started. It was only five terms; they…

— June Brown

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them…

— Robert Osborne

Even when you're casting, casting is always one of the weirdest subjective areas. You can get a group of people who would…

— Suzanne Todd

When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would…

— Kristen Stewart

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes…

— Pratik Gandhi

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an…

— Margot Robbie

“The Joke...Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras;variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami…

— David Foster Wallace

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

— Paul Dano

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

— Taylor Sheridan

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

— Chelsea Handler

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

— Steve Buscemi

I miss Broadway! I'm still a theatre kid, don't worry!

— Gaten Matarazzo

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

— John Bishop

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

— Michael Moore

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

— Shanola Hampton

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

— Kirti Kulhari

Like any other aspirational actor, I wanted to be a part of films.

— Vikrant Massey

I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

— Ian Mckellen

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

— Sriram Raghavan

There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.

— Phil Knight

All I have tried to do as an actor is push good story telling.

— Tovino Thomas

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

— Meryl Streep