Theatre Quotes · Page 236

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

— Colin Hanks

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

— Maximilian Schell

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

— John Cho

If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.

— Lucas Hedges

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

— Paul Schneider

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

— Joe Mantegna

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

— Joely Fisher

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

— Steve Coogan

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was…

— David Harewood

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything…

— Isaiah Washington

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

— Martin Sheen

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your…

— Ben Howard

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how…

— Taylor Sheridan

“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay…

— L.M. Montgomery

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

— Johnny Galecki

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down…

— Babe Ruth

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or…

— Lee Hall

In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion…

— Lynn Nottage

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II,…

— Warren Farrell

Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show…

— Alan Tudyk

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning…

— Edward Albee

I started doing the big Hollywood stuff, and I realised, 'Oh, there's no rehearsal at all; you just turn up on the…

— David Thewlis

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

— John Lennon

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

— Ewan McGregor

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

— Stella Adler

“Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.”

— T.F. Hodge

When I was an actor, I liked throwing a challenge to other actors.

— Nizhalgal Ravi

Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

— Ophelia Lovibond

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

— Hugo Weaving

A good comedian has to be a fine actor all around.

— Paresh Rawal

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

— Michael B. Jordan

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

— Corin Nemec

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

— Paloma Faith

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

— Asrani

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

— Alan Rickman

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

— Josie Totah

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

— Dakota Goyo

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

— Amanda Peet