Theatre Quotes · Page 162

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

— Anthony Burgess

When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.

— Charlotte Rae

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

— Alan Cumming

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

— Taron Egerton

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

— Peter Sarsgaard

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

— John Hawkes

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

— John Mortimer

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

— Richard Gere

“Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being…

— Sarah Ruhl

I am ambitious to do more than what has been offered me. I want to be the best in whatever career I…

— Uday Chopra

I will also fulfill my profession commitments as an actor as I would not let the actor in me die after joining…

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded…

— Danny McBride

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

“The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.”

— Iris Murdoch

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time…

— Raul Esparza

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites…

— Gia Coppola

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the…

— Peter Riegert

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should…

— Donald E. Westlake

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…

— Amy Bloom

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing…

— Vincent Paronnaud

The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being…

— Jonah Hill

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the…

— Scott Bakula

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the…

— Ralph Fiennes

I think it would be really cool to see 'Enchanted' on Broadway - there's been discussion of it from time to time.…

— Stephen Schwartz

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

— Juliette Binoche

I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.

— Colbie Caillat

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

— Laura Harrier

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

— Anonymous

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

— Michael Chiklis

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

I think what I have to offer is more useful in theatre than on screen.

— Jamie Parker

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

— Valerie Azlynn

It's about time we had trans actors in trans roles.

— Rebecca Root

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

— Wes Anderson

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

— John Barrowman

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

— Thomas Haden Church

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

— Brendan Coyle

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

— Aeriel Miranda

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

— Sophie Okonedo