Theatre Quotes · Page 222

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

— Andre Holland

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

— Bruno Dumont

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

— Jean Smart

I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

— Sean Hayes

I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

— Tanc Sade

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

— Walt Dohrn

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

— John Rhys-Davies

I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with…

— Pankaj Kapur

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful.…

— Lee Yoon-ki

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

— Laura Vandervoort

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working…

— Peter Coyote

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order…

— Penelope Wilton

I perform in theaters, international stages with people screaming for me, and then I go back to my hotel room, take all…

— Violet Chachki

I always loved acting. I always loved realism. I loved the theatre, specifically small audience, real-sets stuff.

— Finn Cole

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can…

— John Francis Daley

I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which…

— Stark Sands

Playing Arthur, I'm sorry to sound sappy, but it was a gift from the Gods. I've always been a working actor and…

— Rainn Wilson

I always take part in the creative process of every film of mine. Gone are the days where an actor would walk…

— R. Madhavan

I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy…

— Ralph Fiennes

“Many in the audience consider leaving. If anyone leaves, let them leave. The theatre is not a prison. If anyone coughs, cough…

— Lem Doolittle

I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film…

— Linda Cardellini

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological…

— Uta Hagen

What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they…

— Natalie Zea

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

— Colin Quinn

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

— Sarah Harding

From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.

— Hale Appleman

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

— Walter Annenberg

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

— Mika

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does on stage, but I can assure you it's no act.

— Andy Kindler

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

— Rebecca Romijn

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

— Caleb Deschanel

Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

— Daveed Diggs

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

— Rudyard Kipling

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

— Aisha Tyler

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

— Tim Robbins