Theatre Quotes · Page 198

I spent two years trying to get into drama school.

— Rege-Jean Page

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

— Mae West

To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.

— Rene Marie

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

— Jason Robards

If you are changing yourself with every film, you will be exhausted as an actor.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I had tried out for theatre school and didn't get it four times.

— Alicia Vikander

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

— Kevin Costner

One day, I would like to be a part of a stage production, preferably a musical.

— Alia Bhatt

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing.…

— Melissa Leo

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth…

— Stella Adler

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and…

— Viola Davis

I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's…

— Kellan Lutz

As an actor, your job is half done when your co-star becomes your friend, especially when it's Judi Dench.

— Ali Fazal

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which…

— Valorie Curry

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient.…

— Roger Taylor

There's no money in theater, but artistically speaking, it's so much more fulfilling! But, of course, there are still so many people…

— Elena Kampouris

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed…

— Pierre Huyghe

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your…

— Stephen Lang

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe…

— Diana Gabaldon

You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on…

— George Washington

As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the…

— Chris Vance

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I…

— John Hurt

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

— Colin Morgan

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

— Peter Brook

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

— Abi Morgan

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

— Rebecca Hall

After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.

— Anonymous

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

— Ron Livingston

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

— Mako

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

— Milos Forman

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

— Don Van Vliet

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”

— Constantin Stanislavski

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

— Carice van Houten

As an actor, I probably fall into more of the sidekick/best friend/doctor/lawyer category.

— Keiko Agena

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

— Justin Bartha

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

— Joe Manganiello