Theatre Quotes · Page 257

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

— Billy Eichner

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

— Amber Benson

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

— Bob Newhart

I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.

— Toni Collette

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

— Joel Grey

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

— Skai Jackson

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

— Anthony Edwards

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his…

— David Copperfield

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's…

— Michael Ironside

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

— Olivia Holt

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do…

— John Kani

'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an…

— Kashmira Shah

There are a lot of people at drama school that come from inherited wealth and it's an easier ride. I had to…

— Nicola Coughlan

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of…

— David Ayer

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest…

— Jason Winston George

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts…

— Cherry Jones

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage…

— Ken Stott

I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such…

— Sherry Lansing

When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a…

— Paul Reubens

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and…

— Andy Serkis

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's…

— Sarita Choudhury

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that…

— David Mamet

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered…

— Christopher Nolan

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

— Karen Allen

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.

— Hart Bochner

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

— Rob Cross

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

— Ted Shackelford

I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.

— Blythe Danner

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

— Mahira Khan

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

— Robert Mitchum

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

— Dirk Benedict

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

— Michael Ironside

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.

— Nithya Menen

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

— Tessanne Chin

People are ready to take good actors, irrespective of whether he is a TV actor or a filmstar.

— Hiten Tejwani

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

— Ray Romano

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

— Natasha Leggero

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

— Ryan Kwanten