Theatre Quotes · Page 196

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music.

— LeAnn Rimes

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

— Alan Rickman

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

— Kirk Douglas

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

— Erin Cummings

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

— Richard Wilson

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

— Rupert Everett

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

— Mandy Patinkin

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

— Al Jourgensen

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of…

— Kate Walsh

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

— Miguel Ferrer

I was never into drama and theatre in school, so I never participated in Christmas skits that were often a part of…

— Gautam Rode

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

— Millicent Simmonds

There's always that siren song call from America for actors, I think, in Canada. You always want to know, you never want…

— Lauren Ash

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me…

— Cathy Rigby

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to…

— John Boyega

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character…

— John Mahoney

Thank God for Deaf West Theater - if it wasn't for them, where the hell else was I going to exercise my…

— Paul Raci

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might…

— Jason Statham

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film.…

— Michael Haneke

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor,…

— Isla Fisher

I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a…

— Martin Landau

We filmed part of it here at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, and then we filmed the other part of it…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an…

— Seth Gabel

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

— Coby Bell

There are some actors that I know I won't do a film with no matter how good the film is.

— Ileana D'Cruz

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

— Bruce Willis

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

— Jet Li

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

— Pratik Gandhi

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

— Pernell Roberts

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

— Herbert Hoover

A lot of actors go crazy if they're not working, but I guess I'm a little lazy.

— Fred MacMurray

“Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.”

— John Yorke

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

— Barry Keoghan

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

— John Patrick Shanley

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

— Alia Bhatt

If a Girl said I hate drama there's a 99% that she is a huge drama queen

— Anonymous

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

— Anonymous