Theatre Quotes · Page 155

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

— Alfred Hitchcock

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

— Diane Keaton

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

— Vincent Price

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

— Kerris Dorsey

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

— Richard Griffiths

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

— Shane Carruth

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

— Adam Driver

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Some people are finicky about going to the theater alone, but I’m not. Because when the lights go down, the only relationship…

— Stephanie Perkins

I think I arrived in this world to be creative: a performer, and an entertainer, and I channeled that through doing theater…

— Amanda Bearse

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing…

— Beth Henley

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

— Michael Socha

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing…

— Blake Lively

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

— Denzel Washington

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and…

— Pierce Brosnan

I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in…

— Chris Farley

One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than…

— Kelly Bishop

I was brought to films at such a young age. And I would see my parents breaking down stories at the dinner…

— Molly Gordon

I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the…

— Eric Balfour

I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in…

— John Hodgman

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down…

— Eli Wallach

There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye…

— Tyne Daly

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

— James Purefoy

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

— Val Kilmer

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

— Michael Ball

It is very important for actors to maintain a variety in their body of work.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

— Marlon Brando

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

— Jessica Pare

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

— George Clooney

January 4, 1943, is when I became a professional actor-cum-thespian.

— Bernard Cribbins

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

— Ashton Kutcher

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

— Edward Bond

I always loved comedy growing up, I didnt watch a lot of drama.

— Renee Rapp

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There are so many amazing actors and I like certain films of certain actors.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

— Tatiana Maslany

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

— Annabelle Wallis