Theatre Quotes · Page 170

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

— Mathieu Amalric

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.

— Rahul Roy

It is important for an actor to play different roles.

— Jim Sarbh

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

— Jefferson Mays

I have done four years of rigorous theatre before I finally started doing films.

— Varun Sharma

I'm the only one in the family who stumbled into acting.

— Rocky Carroll

I was the first actor from Bihar to become a film star.

— Shatrughan Sinha

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

— Jack White

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

— Julie Delpy

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

— Chadwick Boseman

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work.…

— Brian Dennehy

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too…

— Dane Cook

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

— Sam Raimi

I like television, but there's not as much freedom as there is in film or theatre, and I always felt that there…

— Christopher Lloyd

When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden…

— Keegan Allen

Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne­ - having had that experience - instead of…

— Julia Stiles

Just because my dad has been an actor, I will never say no to an opportunity to act. My dad has never…

— Ananya Panday

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't…

— Luke Evans

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as…

— George Clooney

I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood…

— David Ayer

With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something,…

— Wayne McGregor

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is…

— Henry Cavill

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

— Courtney Hadwin

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

— Bella Ramsey

I'd hardly seen any movies when I was 19 and left drama school.

— Eileen Atkins

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

— David Mamet

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

— Chloe Noelle

I never thought I would be doing musical theatre.

— Renee Rapp

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

— Ruben Studdard

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

— Kevin Spacey

The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

— Chris Bauer

Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

— Ali Fazal

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

— John Belushi

“All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed.”

— Sean O'Casey

“A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing”

— Milan Kundera

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

— Jamie Parker

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

— Carla Gugino

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

— Michael Caine