Theatre Quotes · Page 183

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

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

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

— Valerie Azlynn

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— John Barrowman

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

— Brendan Coyle

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns…

— Sean Penn

Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.

— Ben Vereen

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair…

— John Cusack

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your…

— Naomie Harris

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

— Craig Zadan

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

— Scott Wolf

Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

— Laura Dern

The theater community will always remain a big part of my life, and I hope to re-join the cast of 'The Color…

— LaChanze

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the…

— Kajol

It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up…

— Sadie Calvano

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child…

— Brian Cox

Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room,…

— David Leitch

In L.A., everyone wants to be an actor. Everyone's putting on a front, it seems. It comes with Hollywood and the whole…

— Larry Nance, Jr

Comedy people are always present because they're always looking for the funniest version of whatever the line is. Sometimes theater people, where…

— Chris O'Dowd

Working on a set and working with actors, that's all the same. The moment you're doing it and you're in the moment,…

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what…

— Jonas Armstrong

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

— Aeriel Miranda

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

— Casey Affleck

The professional's love for the theater is less pure than that of the non-professional's.

— Van Heflin

It is hard to sit in the theatre and have people turning round and looking at you.

— Jerry Springer

I never wanted to be an actor as I wasn't passionate about it.

— Karan Kapoor

I'm a musician. Anything I've done as an actor has come from that.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley

So, when I write, I am the last choice as an actor.

— Anoop Menon

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

— Matt Lanter

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

For an actor like me, there are very few options to choose from.

— Varun Sandesh

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

— Melissa George

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

— Scott Glenn

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

— George C. Scott

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

— Sandra Bullock