Theatre Quotes · Page 260

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

Oh, you're an actor??? Why don't you act like a waiter and get me another beer.

— Nikhil Saluja

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

— Grace Slick

On stage I did things I never imagined possible.

— Dylan Llewellyn

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

— Miranda Otto

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

— Daniel Berrigan

“You have to set the stage now,there is so much for you to accomplish.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have…

— Max von Sydow

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great…

— Ralph Fiennes

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.

— Zeenat Aman

Actors have to stay ready and be ready. They need to adjust things in their life, whether it be hair, teeth, take…

— Vanessa Bell Calloway

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

— Peter Weir

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening…

— Kenneth Tynan

Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors…

— D'Arcy Carden

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on…

— Carrie Coon

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It…

— Tracy Letts

“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these…

— Christopher Hawke

“They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever…

— William Butler Yeats

I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems…

— Fiona Apple

I did musicals in high school, certainly. And then I just kept wanting to do them. I felt at home in the…

— Jason Robert Brown

It's a win-win situation when you make your debut with a superstar like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, or Sunny Deol. The…

— Urvashi Rautela

Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play.…

— John Leguizamo

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the…

— Alfred Jarry

I am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.

— Rishi Kapoor

When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Only when a film comes along that I really believe in like this one will I turn to acting.

— Sterling Hayden

I have acted in several theatre groups in Bengaluru and my passion has always been films.

— Shraddha Srinath

I've always been interested in acting because I acted before I did singing.

— Jay Sean

Anytime you can get the crowd to be a factor, kudos to the crowd.

— Baker Mayfield

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

— Vaclav Havel

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

— Elia Kazan

I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

— Tom Baker

I think, you know, actors rely on each other all the time.

— Linda Cardellini

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

— Frankie Grande

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

— Judi Dench

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

— Patti LuPone

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

— Mario Vazquez

I love living drama free it's the best feeling in the world.

— Michael Myers Jr

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

— Daniel Tosh