Theatre Quotes · Page 256

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

— Jill Clayburgh

I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.

— Stephanie Beatriz

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.

— Shraddha Srinath

Sometimes I wish I had remained in little theater.

— Van Heflin

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

— Victor Garber

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.

— Katharine Cornell

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

— Marie Trintignant

The reality is that most of us actors have to take work that we would rather not at some time.

— Terry O'Quinn

Some people have the meat-market mentality, so you've got to take your shirt off because it will bring girls into the theater.…

— Josh Hartnett

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot…

— Luke Evans

“I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because…

— Tom Hiddleston

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own…

— Chris Lilley

Throughout my career, I've never really been a guy who created drama or wanted to deal with drama.

— Luol Deng

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not…

— Emily Browning

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm known as a dramatic actor. But because I don't do a lot of comedy, I love watching it because I can…

— Riley Smith

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of…

— Julio Cortazar

I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old…

— Cameron Monaghan

Because I grew up in southern California I had access to a high level of professionalism in school, acting classes and summer…

— Robert Englund

As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to…

— Noel Clarke

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that…

— Joe Mantello

I'll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working…

— Scott Eastwood

I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the…

— Sigourney Weaver

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition…

— Gary Sinise

My journey of working in Telugu filmdom has helped me grow as an actor and person.

— Raashi Khanna

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

— The Weeknd

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

— Michael Caine

“In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.”

— J D Salinger

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

— Lucas Neff

My first stage performance was when I was just four.

— Shamna Kasim

One always wants to express themselves when they're an actor.

— Jason Watkins

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

— Vik Sahay

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

— Faye Dunaway

I owe a great debt to what we call the amateur theater.

— Van Heflin

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

— Robin Williams

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

— Liev Schreiber

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

— Nicolas Cage

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

— Uwe Boll

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

— Natalie Dormer