Theatre Quotes · Page 188

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

— Emily Blunt

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

— Adam West

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

— Naomie Harris

I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.

— Jain

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

— Craig Ferguson

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

— Chris Noth

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

— Gene Tierney

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

— Tom Bateman

“When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment…

— Meg Howrey

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care…

— Conleth Hill

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's…

— Kelvin Fletcher

“We are the stars of our own world and we are also actors who take small parts in the outside world, yet…

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

At the moment when I come on stage and I hear the excitement, I can feel the excitement of the crowd. That's…

— Hardwell

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that…

— Meryl Streep

'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a…

— Ken Jeong

If you're an up-and-coming star, and you want to do well, then a show like 'The X Factor' is really important.

— Ronan Keating

“We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we…

— Haruki Murakami

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to…

— Pedro Pascal

We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics,…

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when…

— Sarah Waters

I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that,…

— Greta Gerwig

The studio and the stage are very different atmospheres. The studio is very personal. You are alone with your own idea and…

— KK

To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came…

— Betty Gilpin

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have…

— Stephen Lang

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

— Patrick Stewart

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life,

— Mark Rylance

As an actor, it's the hardest thing to try to get work.

— Leslie Grossman

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

— LaChanze

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

— Michael Sheen

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

— Bindi Irwin

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

— Gary Cole

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

— Anonymous

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

— Matt Long

I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.

— Gedde Watanabe

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

— Laura Linney

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

— John Travolta