Theatre Quotes · Page 185

I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.

— Noma Dumezweni

I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.

— Joss Whedon

'Ramayan' was my first show which propelled me as an actor and helped me gain visibility.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

— Julie Benz

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

— Marlon Brando

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

— Placido Domingo

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

— Eugene Ionesco

When we watch a film as actors, you have to understand that we always see much more than what's on screen.

— Kunal Khemu

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

— Stephen Karam

For the first ten years of my career, or up to the point I did 'Local Hero,' I was always trying to…

— Denis Lawson

I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that…

— Ryan Eggold

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

— Viggo Mortensen

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something…

— Edward Norton

There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and…

— Neha Kakkar

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they…

— Mahershala Ali

As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting,…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to…

— Jack Davenport

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as…

— Claire Danes

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on…

— Shakira

When I was younger, I was nervous and didn't have a huge amount of confidence as an actor. Comedy is something -…

— Lucy Punch

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I…

— Diane Farr

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what…

— Charlie Kaufman

See, the first thing about actors is, you're just trying to get a job; and you audition and audition and you finally…

— George Clooney

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

— Matthew Weiner

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

— Chris Burke

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

— Zawe Ashton

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

— Andrew Davies

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

— Neko Case

I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

— Tisca Chopra

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

— Maria Callas

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

— Michael Chiklis

Would I be happy just to be an actor? I don't think I would.

— Sergei Polunin

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

— Nina Conti

Everything that has come my way has moulded me as an actor and as a person.

— Sushmita Sen

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

— Heinrich Heine

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson