Theatre Quotes · Page 218

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

— Mahira Khan

I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.

— Blythe Danner

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.

— Hart Bochner

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

— Karen Allen

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

— Ted Shackelford

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

— Rob Cross

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

— Joel Grey

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

— Bob Newhart

I have been doing Marathi theatre for the past 15 years. The people there are very hardworking, talented and committed. But the…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able…

— Hayden Christensen

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

— Tom Wilkinson

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.

— Billy Bob Thornton

A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.

— Erica Durance

I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to…

— Dan Stevens

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being…

— Alden Ehrenreich

When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,…

— Mirella Freni

I do these things, as an actor, that I would have been oblivious to, if I hadn't studied acting. You start to…

— Travis Aaron Wade

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my…

— Michael Douglas

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think…

— Misha Collins

If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you…

— Candice Accola

Every actor has his own approach towards acting. I believe you do not become the character you are playing. You may get…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the…

— Terrence Howard

I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.

— Toni Collette

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

— Anthony Edwards

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

— Skai Jackson

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

— Natalie Dormer

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

— Uwe Boll

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

— Nicolas Cage

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

— Liev Schreiber

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

— Amber Benson

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

— Billy Eichner

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

— Robin Williams

I owe a great debt to what we call the amateur theater.

— Van Heflin

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

— Faye Dunaway

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

— Vik Sahay

One always wants to express themselves when they're an actor.

— Jason Watkins

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

— Stephen King