Theatre Quotes · Page 190

I tend to play geeky types but I'd like to be a bad boy. I'd also love a period drama.

— Dylan Llewellyn

I didn't become an actor because I thought I'd make lots of money.

— Richard Armitage

Lights on stage, I guess I got to put on a show, cause everyones waiting.

— Chris Brown

Drama is one of those things you just can't run from.

— Jade Surette

My first film, 'Leader,' created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.

— Rana Daggubati

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

— Adrian Pasdar

There are many actors I know who are not talkative.

— Divya Agarwal

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

— Brad Hall

I am an actor. Let me act, let me audition. Let me show what I can do. You need to surprise yourself…

— Radhika Madan

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all…

— Jay Maisel

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

— Chris Harrison

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a…

— Jeffrey Donovan

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means…

— Christopher Walken

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs.…

— David Lee Roth

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

— W. C. Fields

I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to…

— Marianne Elliott

I typically try not to think too hard about what I'm going to do in a certain scene with a certain actor…

— Adrienne C. Moore

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people,…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I…

— Cress Williams

The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.…

— Robert Montgomery

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to…

— Tony Kushner

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are…

— Meryl Streep

When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.

— Charlie Plummer

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

— Ben Vereen

I think that's what theater camp is. It's a place where anyone can be themselves.

— Molly Gordon

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

— Kate Winslet

I believe that an actor should be like water, free-flowing and extremely flexible.

— Babu Antony

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

— Leslie Mann

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

— Anonymous

More importantly, I'm an actor whose passion is dance.

— Shobana

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

— Lynne Reid Banks

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

— Alfred Hitchcock

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

— Vincent Price

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

— Diane Keaton

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

— Kerris Dorsey

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

— Richard Griffiths

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

— Shane Carruth