Theatre Quotes · Page 19

I did not choose acting as a career.

— Raashi Khanna

Nobody is a perfect actor.

— Paul Dano

I'm such a theater geek.

— Kiernan Shipka

I love going to the theatre.

— Marcelo

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

— Steven Berkoff

I'd love to teach theatre arts.

— Enrico Colantoni

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

— Denzel Washington

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

— Rory O'Malley

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

— Arthur Smith

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

— Julie Halston

There's nothing worse than actors spouting about what they think.

— Sophie Okonedo

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.

— Linden Ashby

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

— Tom Green

When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.

— Debra Stephenson

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

— Kathryn Hahn

If there's any actor who is saying we are not insecure, they are lying, because this job is an emotional one.

— Parineeti Chopra

I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid…

— Betty Gilpin

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely…

— Harold Prince

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I…

— Penelope Keith

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

— James Nesbitt

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

— Michel Gondry

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money

— Beth Henley

I think as an actor it's always a challenge to experiment and play something that you're not. What's the point if I…

— Shefali Shah

People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But…

— Viggo Mortensen

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of…

— David Farr

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it…

— Karl Urban

When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because…

— Kaya Scodelario

I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I…

— Ryan Reynolds

“One part of the study looked specifically at the impact on students involved in theater. Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading…

— Michael Sokolove

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City,…

— David Cassidy

After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you…

— David M. Evans

The theater is magical and addictive.

— Angela Lansbury

I'm better not operating at center stage.

— Philip Anschutz

The only thing I won't do is theater.

— Tim Roth

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

— Jack Nicholson

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

I always wanted to go to a drama school.

— April Pearson

For actors, social media is a driving force.

— Shruti Haasan

You have to be crazy to do theater.

— Martin Landau