Theatre Quotes · Page 173

“the only thing a marketing man can do is shine a brighter light on the stage.”

— Jack McCallum

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

— Clive Rowe

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

— Thomas Haden Church

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.

— Chris Owen

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

— Vince Vaughn

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

— Morgan Freeman

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

— Akshay Kumar

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I…

— Oscar Wilde

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always…

— Francois Arnaud

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the…

— Idris Elba

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

— Zal Batmanglij

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon…

— Florenz Ziegfeld

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

— Preston Sturges

It is not easy for a dancer to be accepted as an actor. But I worked my way up through hard work…

— Prabhu Deva

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

I think the sense of performance and theatre was in my blood very early - but my father was more involved in…

— Carol Drinkwater

New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles…

— David S. Goyer

“Generally, the lie is a denatured truth. Drama occurs when this truth is still non- existent for the majority of human beings,…

— Marieta Maglas

I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable…

— Todd Haynes

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something…

— Christian Slater

You'd think I'd be more comfortable with the action, but actually I'm more comfortable with the drama. I mean you get more…

— Timothy Miller

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want…

— Katie Lowes

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and…

— Cliff Martinez

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.

— Daisy Shah

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

— Fernando Pessoa

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

— Tony Randall

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

— Donald Pleasence

I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?'

— Courtney A. Kemp

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

— Tara Strong

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

— Sam Wanamaker

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

— Sophocles

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

— Michael Flatley

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

— Kate Fleetwood

I know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.

— Karan Wahi

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

— Richard E. Grant

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

— Carmen Ejogo

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.

— Theophilus London

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

— Rakul Preet Singh