Theatre Quotes · Page 159

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

— LaTanya Richardson

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

— Steve Valentine

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

— Justin Prentice

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

— Dennis Haysbert

My life is drama free and I'm keeping it that way!

— Veronica Moore

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

— Susane Colasanti

My husband is an actor, and we don't talk about acting at home.

— Nicola Walker

The professional's love for the theater is less pure than that of the non-professional's.

— Van Heflin

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

— Saffron Burrows

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for…

— Ted Alexandro

As an actor, I do not restrict myself by saying it has to be like this only. What matters in the end…

— Rubina Dilaik

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was…

— Ashley Johnson

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of…

— Alec Baldwin

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your…

— Carrie Coon

When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake…

— Alexandra Daddario

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in…

— Jess Weixler

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd…

— Schoolboy Q

“What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you…

— Sarah Ruhl

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor.…

— Santiago Cabrera

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to…

— Todd Haynes

I always say to every actor, and to people that want to get into this industry, to just try to be on…

— Camila Morrone

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

— Casey Affleck

I never wanted to be an actor as I wasn't passionate about it.

— Karan Kapoor

It is hard to sit in the theatre and have people turning round and looking at you.

— Jerry Springer

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

— Harry Connick, Jr

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

— Matt Lanter

So, when I write, I am the last choice as an actor.

— Anoop Menon

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley

For an actor like me, there are very few options to choose from.

— Varun Sandesh

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

— George C. Scott

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

— Scott Glenn

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

— Melissa George

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

— Sandra Bullock

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

— Salim Akil

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

— Jerry Herman