Theatre Quotes · Page 208

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

— Ana Gasteyer

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

— David Twohy

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

I am not a good actor. There is much more to do and learn.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I've always loved musical theatre. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

— Judy Norton

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

— Tom Baker

Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.

— Emo Philips

All of my scenes were with Jason Isaacs. I could definitely see myself going on an adventure with him, and learning as…

— A Fine Frenzy

I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within…

— Zac Posen

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.…

— Al Pacino

Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.

— Jimmi Simpson

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding…

— Kevin Spacey

We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character…

— Tom Junod

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

— Ethel Merman

Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the…

— Conchita Wurst

For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the…

— Bill Condon

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also…

— John C. Reilly

I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great…

— Adam Sandler

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and…

— Prunella Scales

When I went to LA I was almost 30, I'd been nominated for two Tony awards, and on the New York theatre…

— Patrick Wilson

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored…

— Julian Jarrold

When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little…

— David Hedison

I think it's that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they…

— Adam West

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

— William Mapother

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

— Woody Harrelson

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

— Amy Ryan

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

— Patrick Wilson

“It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.”

— Nick Hornby

An actor's job is to maintain the balance between the projects they decide to take up.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

— The Weeknd

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

The reality is that most of us actors have to take work that we would rather not at some time.

— Terry O'Quinn

My journey of working in Telugu filmdom has helped me grow as an actor and person.

— Raashi Khanna

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

— Marie Trintignant

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

My first stage performance was when I was just four.

— Shamna Kasim

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

— Lucas Neff