Theatre Quotes · Page 203

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

— Tom Cullen

I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.

— Christopher Jackson

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

— Edward Albee

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

— Barun Sobti

Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees.

— Rajendra Prasad

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

— Henry Golding

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

— April Pearson

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

— Henry David Thoreau

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If…

— Keith Johnstone

I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.

— Robert Vaughn

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through…

— Lorraine Toussaint

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being…

— Jena Malone

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become…

— Gong Yoo

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more…

— Marc Guggenheim

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and…

— Guy Pearce

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Andrew laughed at the use of the word “theater.” “B.Atlman will have plenty of theater on Monday,” he said, “when Estée Lauder…

— Lynn Steward

I moved to New York at 17 to pursue theater. I didn't know anyone and I didn't have any sort of way…

— Mike Faist

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who…

— Richard Condon

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script;…

— Viola Davis

Child actors become types. The cutesy type, the funny type, the dark type. Any time you're a type, your career's over. It's…

— Shia LaBeouf

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where…

— Adam Beach

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they…

— Jill Scott

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the…

— Errol Morris

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

— J. B. Smoove

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

— Carol Kane

I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.

— Joe Gilgun

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

— Paddy Chayefsky

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

— Ruben Ostlund

If you can make it in theater, you can make it anywhere.

— LaTanya Richardson

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

— Alan Rickman

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

— Kurt Fuller

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

— Bobby Rahal

This is like my mind just keeps spinning with drama

— Anonymous

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

— Juliette Binoche

I grew up playing a lot of sports and doing musical theater.

— Renee Rapp

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

— Margot Robbie

Of course, the Globe will be an international educational center as well as a theater.

— Sam Wanamaker

I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.

— Francois Cluzet