Theatre Quotes · Page 207

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

— Thalaivasal Vijay

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

— Maxine Peake

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

— Himani Shivpuri

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

— Beth Broderick

When doing films, ones acting skills are polished, and the actor delivers a better performance.

— Gautam Rode

I don't think there is much left that I can explore as an actor.

— Jeetendra

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

— Christian Lacroix

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

— Kit Harington

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt…

— Rajiv Menon

It's a funny thing that when things happen in an actor's life, at some point it's just a performance, at another, it's…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that.…

— Judge Reinhold

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

— Joyce DeWitt

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

— Miles Heizer

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was…

— Anna Faris

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very…

— Steven Moffat

When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a…

— Karen Allen

Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself,…

— Chandra Wilson

I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to…

— Kevin Spacey

The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not…

— Mark Kurlansky

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look.…

— Kevin Costner

My mum tells me, 'I always thought you were going to be an actor because you always wanted to dress up as…

— Harris Dickinson

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination…

— Nicolas Cage

You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in…

— David Bowie

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

— Arthur Miller

Some nights you walk off stage and go 'That was a good crowd.'

— Ralphie May

Being an actor, it's my responsibility to do something for society.

— Binnu Dhillon

I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.

— Miranda Cosgrove

But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.

— Dana Reeve

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

— Michael Keaton

“I’m sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You’ve just got to do it all.”

— Michael Sokolove

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

— Nikki Cox

Notice how the girls who say they hate drama the most are the most involved in it.

— Anonymous

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

— Deirdre Lovejoy

People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

— Bruce Forsyth

Of course I am an actor but I consider myself as an entertainer as well.

— Varun Sharma

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

— John Lloyd Young

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

— John Cariani

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

— Lucy Deakins

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

— Robert Dhery