Theatre Quotes · Page 20

I'd always dabbled in acting.

— Nelsan Ellis

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

— Ron Moody

You say you hate drama, but yet you start it?

— Anonymous

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

— Gloria Gaynor

The drama is the book of the people.

— Robert Aris Willmott

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

— William Shatner

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

— Farah Khan

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

— Glen Hansard

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

— Whoopi Goldberg

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

— Alan Tudyk

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

— Ben Daniels

As an actor, I will work - whether it is in a Malayalam, Telugu or any film.

— Dino Morea

I wanted to be an actor. Music was a side project.

— Kyle Gass

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

— Cyril Cusack

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

— Laura Harrier

Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.

— Oleksandr Usyk

I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then…

— Stephanie Seymour

You have to be super close to yourself, and comfortable with it being revealed, in order to be a good actor.

— Aimee Lou Wood

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

— Jesse Eisenberg

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like…

— Robin Williams

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

— Rose Byrne

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

— Richard Gere

For me 'Meet Mila De Rabba' is a very important project since it will break my on-screen villainous image and prove my…

— Raza Murad

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap…

— Ozzy Osbourne

There is always a hesitancy with actors, and inhibitions can get into the work, so you have to figure out how to…

— Barry Levinson

There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather…

— Margo Jones

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

In theatre you can't ad lib, so you want to pick really good material, like David Mamet or Shakespeare or whatever. You…

— Sam Rockwell

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and…

— Jeff Daniels

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right…

— Catherine Tate

When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked…

— Charlie Kaufman

Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces.…

— Susan Sarandon

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

— Michel Patini

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

— Edward Burns

I am proud to be an actor.

— Rod Taylor

Don't be afraid to call me a failed actor.

— Rahul Roy

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

— Victoria Justice

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

— Sarah Wayne Callies

I'll always go back to the stage.

— Nathan Lane

I'm confident about playing on the big stage.

— Jack Butland