Theatre Quotes · Page 206

Working on a particular look doesn't make you a serious actor.

— Ali Fazal

“The acting area is a sacred space... where the actor cannot die.”

— Michael Goldman

Being an international actor, I always had to keep moving.

— Kabir Bedi

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

— Mary Steenburgen

To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.

— Ed Westwick

I am equally a writer and an actor and a director.

— Tanya Saracho

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

— Joseph Morgan

Standing on a stage where you dont know whether to go for it or let it go.

— Munif Gulroo

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give…

— Edie Falco

All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I…

— Jason Mewes

According to me, every actor is struggling in the industry. Someone is trying to live up to their father's name, or someone…

— Neha Dhupia

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me…

— Asin

Before I transitioned, I was double-acting, if that makes sense. I was acting being a guy, and I was employed as a…

— Rebecca Root

“Toxic people are great actors. They will utilize whichever props are available to maintain control in the relationship.”

— Shannon Thomas

The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.

— Neil Sedaka

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

— E. M. Forster

I decided to try drama for the attention and making my family laugh. There is no greater joy then hearing your parents…

— David Schwimmer

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't…

— Sebastian Stan

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I…

— Hugh Jackman

The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity…

— Matt Dillon

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image,…

— Marshall McLuhan

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes,…

— Ryan Reynolds

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or…

— Janusz Korczak

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

— Charlotte Le Bon

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.

— Viola Davis

I always thought that I could be, like, a funny actor.

— Noah Kahan

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

— Damian Lewis

As an actor, you're always told that your career needs box-office numbers.

— Kartik Aaryan

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

— Anthony Quinn

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

— Julie Walters

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

— Kristin Lehman

I like to use the stage and there's nothing subtle about me.

— A. J. Odudu

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

— Joan Allen

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

— George Jean Nathan

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

— Om Puri

As an actor, I'm not really worried about being typecast.

— Dino Morea

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

— Tommy Chong

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

— Nushrat Bharucha