Theatre Quotes · Page 168

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

— Nick Gehlfuss

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

— Cat Deeley

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

— Robert Knepper

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

— LaChanze

I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.

— Jane Lynch

When you spend half the movie wondering where you seen that actor before

— Teen Post

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

— Kelsey Chow

It's simple: if you are an actor, people are going to be curious about your life. It happens across the world, and…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to…

— Christopher Nolan

When I told my parents that I wanted to be an actor, they were like, 'How can you be an actor? You…

— Tripti Dimri

I joined the National School of Drama in the 1980s and for anyone who joins the NSD, they eat, sleep and breathe…

— Himani Shivpuri

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at…

— Mia Goth

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

— Paresh Rawal

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off,…

— Carey Mulligan

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates…

— Scott Bakula

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose…

— Marilyn Monroe

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop…

— Vicky McClure

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

“It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before…

— Noel Gallagher

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think…

— Tom Mison

A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and…

— Jello Biafra

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

“Let me see what you look like on my stage with nothing on.”

— Lauren Blakely

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

— James Earl Jones

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

— Joel Edgerton

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

— Marcus Brigstocke

Only difference between me and other actors is Ive spent more time in jail.

— Robert Mitchum

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

— Charlotte Ritchie

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

— Nicole Ari Parker

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

— Mark Wahlberg

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

— Jeffrey Jones

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

— Candice Patton