Theatre Quotes · Page 247

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

— Richard McCabe

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

— D. B. Sweeney

As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.

— Pankaj Kapur

I always wanted to be somebody that kind of stuck out on the stage.

— Gabby Barrett

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

— Victor Buono

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

— Lee Strasberg

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

— Joel Edgerton

“When they bring the drama, get silent, don't react...and watch what happens (not to you, but those who habitually thrive on your…

— T.F. Hodge

It is exhausting to be giving one's all in the theatre, my first duty is to my paying public, of course!

— Gyles Brandreth

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for…

— Tuppence Middleton

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

— Dustin Hoffman

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.

— Carne Ross

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

— Kevin Rahm

It is really difficult to read a movie script about yourself and to think that a major actor - perhaps even Chris…

— Nick Yarris

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the…

— Kenneth Lonergan

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and…

— Michael Caine

In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee,…

— Paul Bettany

“He's wrong--high school isn't a pyramid with all the power clustered in a chosen few at the top--it's more of a movie…

— Tiffany Schmidt

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came…

— John Wells

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good…

— Ryan Gosling

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me…

— Taika Waititi

What I've learned, more than anything, as a young actor who has been in the business for 10 years, is just to…

— Theo Rossi

As an actor you have to have the room to play and find the character.

— Simone Missick

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

— Henny Youngman

Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.

— Christine Swanson

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

— Alfred Molina

I saw a play in a black box theatre, and it changed my life.

— Geneva Carr

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

— Lenny Kravitz

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I'm just so happy to have a job.

— Elden Henson

I'd definitely like to do some more film acting.

— Francesca Hayward

As an actor, I want to do roles that get appreciation from audience.

— Vatsal Sheth

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

— Catherine O'Hara

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

— Dermot Mulroney

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

— Tim Crouch

If you chose me Ill guarantee. That the rest of your life would be man drama free.

— Robin Thicke

“Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.”

— Aswin Devarajan

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

— Jason Earles

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

— Jean Smart