Theatre Quotes · Page 161

'Ramayan' was my first show which propelled me as an actor and helped me gain visibility.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

“he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will.”

— Lao Tzu

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

— Mohit Chauhan

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.

— Bob Crane

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Whether you're shooting in India or on the Death Star, you're doing human drama.

— Greig Fraser

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

— Val Kilmer

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

— Grace Gummer

I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.

— Steffan Rhodri

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I…

— Rooney Mara

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David…

— Sheryl Lee

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with…

— Omari Hardwick

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I…

— Zoe Bell

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

— James Taylor

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or…

— Jessica Lange

Personally, when I'm not working, I like to do as many things outside of the industry as I can - other things…

— Liam Hemsworth

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film,…

— Geoff Stults

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have…

— Brian Helgeland

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going…

— James Earl Jones

I started doing documentaries in the first place because of the war. I always wanted to do feature films, and I studied…

— Danis Tanovic

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie…

— Bill Irwin

I'd be happy just to do theatre work but it can't pay the bills.

— Phoebe Fox

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

— Dove Cameron

If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.

— Stephen Colletti

Filming a drama is something which you can't tear yourself away.

— Joo Won

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

— Francesca Annis

My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.

— Radha Ravi

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

— Martin Scorsese

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

— Thomas Browne

When you're younger, there aren't very many kid actors. It's a lot easier to get jobs.

— Alexa Vega

“I suppose I shall drop dead in the theater, to a full house, I hope.”

— Hermione Gingold

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

— Adam Rapp

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

— Clint Eastwood

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

— Salman Khan

People want to see actors in funny attire and actors are getting paid to do it.

— Arshad Warsi

When I started my career as an actor, I had no guidance from anyone.

— Suniel Shetty

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

— Alexis Bledel