Theatre Quotes · Page 252

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

— Luke Macfarlane

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

— Susan Sontag

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

— Faith Prince

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

— John Knoll

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

— James Levine

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

— Anonymous

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.

— Yelena Isinbayeva

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

— Asghar Farhadi

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching…

— Burt Reynolds

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

— Martin Parr

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in…

— Al Pacino

I had decided to go to a theatre school for a dramatic training but after a few months, I dropped out. I…

— Lauren Ash

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

— Tom Holland

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating…

— Parineeti Chopra

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

— Philip Glenister

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage…

— Kurt Tucholsky

The stakes at theater camp are insane. You have this three-week period in your life where everything feels like the biggest deal…

— Molly Gordon

If you're a good actor, you should be able to do soap, comedy, Shakespeare, musicals, pantomime, and something like 'Frozen.' Of course,…

— Anita Dobson

I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk…

— Richard Lewis

I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living…

— Seth Rogen

I started in theatre, in Liverpool, which is where I'm from, and which I love as a city. I acted at the…

— Rita Tushingham

There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and…

— Laura Benanti

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The…

— Frank Wildhorn

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

— Christian Kane

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

— Matt Dillon

I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.

— Bobby Deol

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

— Randeep Hooda

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

— Carol Kane

If an actor doesn't believe in the film, the actor doesn't promote the film.

— Sajid Khan

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

— Kelsey Grammer

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

— A. J. McLean

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

— Costa Ronin

I was gonna be an actor and no one was stopping me.

— Phoebe Dynevor

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

— Nicole Kidman

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

— Tye Sheridan

“It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.”

— Nick Hornby

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

An actor's job is to maintain the balance between the projects they decide to take up.

— Gurmeet Choudhary