Theatre Quotes · Page 215

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

— Grace Slick

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

— Cady McClain

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

— Dabbs Greer

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

— Yuen Woo-ping

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

I'd love to do a play eventually, if theaters ever open again.

— Phoebe Dynevor

I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent…

— Shemar Moore

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must…

— Laurence Olivier

I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and…

— Dan Amboyer

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get…

— Alia Bhatt

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell…

— Henry Czerny

It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes…

— Paul Morrissey

Be it television, theatre, or radio, I can work in any medium. I don't want to limit myself to just movies.

— Shweta Tripathi

So many times, when I would do a lot of retakes, I used to say sorry to my director and co-actors.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be…

— James Badge Dale

When you're starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they…

— Tom Hiddleston

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much…

— Asa Butterfield

Even if my throat bleeds from singing and my body breaks from dancing,I will never give up on stage.Under the circumstances where…

— Jaejoong

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years,…

— Casey Affleck

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea,…

— Denis Leary

Theatres are like sacred places - you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet…

— Jonathan Bailey

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status…

— Sterling Hayden

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

— Pam Grier

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

— Jim Caviezel

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

— Katharine Isabelle

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

— Martin Grotjahn

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

— Katharine Hepburn

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

— Lynn Nottage

Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.

— Rakhi Sawant

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

— Steven Wright

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

— Natalie Dormer

As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.

— John Bishop

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

— Julia Stiles

As an actor, I do not want to stick to a particular route.

— Dhanush

The dream as an actor is being able to bounce back and forth between different things.

— Morena Baccarin

I don't think I am motivated enough to act just for the sake of acting.

— Jubin Nautiyal

In theatre, the uglier you are, the better actor you are.

— Himani Shivpuri

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

— Siddharth Shukla