Theatre Quotes · Page 205

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

— Pearl Cleage

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

— Stewart Granger

You can't be too choosy except in the case of period drama.

— Hina Khan

I don't concentrate about stardom as I always wanted to be an actor and remain to be the same.

— Sanya Malhotra

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

— Allison Janney

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

— Sean Bean

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

— Pankaj Tripathi

That's the job of an actor. You get to be in all these strange new challenging situations.

— Lotte Verbeek

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

— Kevin Bacon

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me…

— Jason Robert Brown

Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.

— LaChanze

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare…

— Jimmy Smits

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

— Bob Odenkirk

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had…

— Fiona Gubelmann

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're…

— Jimmy Smits

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

— Aaron Eckhart

I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want…

— Marcia Clark

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one…

— Laurie Metcalf

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So…

— Lindsay Duncan

I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your…

— Robert Englund

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts…

— Nilo Cruz

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a…

— Frank Grillo

When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then…

— Retta

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

— Lolly Adefope

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

— Andrew Buchan

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

— Stan Lee

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

— Bruce Davison

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

— Robert Dallek

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

— Kelly Reilly

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

— Chris Messina

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

— Gloria Gaynor

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

— Russell Hoban

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

— Peter Boyle

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

— Eve Hewson

I want to be a bi-continental working actor and writer.

— Shenaz Treasury

As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.

— David Hewlett

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

— Anthony Hopkins