Theatre Quotes · Page 244

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I had destroyed myself as an actor with my drinking habit in the past.

— Dharmendra

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

— Heather Matarazzo

“The boy was a trained actor, letting me see only what he wanted me to.”

— Jenny B. Jones

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

— Cab Calloway

A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from…

— Patrick Marber

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful…

— Joanna Trollope

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference…

— Christopher Walken

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

— Ekta Kapoor

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game…

— Max Beesley

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can…

— Terry Kinney

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an…

— Kevin Pollak

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

— David Cassidy

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy…

— Hallie Flanagan

Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to…

— Merle Dandridge

As an actor, I feel my job is to perform with utmost honesty and then it is just the film's fate. Of…

— Radhika Madan

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…

— Oliver Goldsmith

If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized…

— Ian Mckellen

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in…

— Greta Gerwig

One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without…

— Debra Dean

Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a…

— Larry Silverberg

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

— Bebe Neuwirth

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

— Patrick J. Adams

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

— Anushka Shetty

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.

— Robin Benway

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

I want to tackle the award-winning films. I want to be seen as an actor-actor.

— Julian Dennison

I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.

— Kriti Sanon

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

— Noma Dumezweni

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

— Sally Phillips

When I hear senior actors discuss their experiences, I can relate to them.

— Dhanush

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

— Marianne Williamson

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

— Morgan Freeman

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

— Marcus Aurelius

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress

— Isabelle Huppert

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

— Ben Stiller

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

— Al Pacino