Theatre Quotes · Page 264

That stage in your friendship where you can insult them:)

— Ms_shy_fly

The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out.

— Liam Cunningham

I am a very blessed actor because I have always got the chance to portray various characters.

— Manini Mishra

I'm really lucky to work with such special actors.

— Lynne Ramsay

Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

— Joe Morton

Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.

— R. Madhavan

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

— Alia Bhatt

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

— Nicole Kidman

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than…

— Sylvester Stallone

When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first…

— Vignesh Shivan

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of…

— Christopher Walken

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

— Sam Huntington

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the…

— Elaine Paige

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money…

— Arthur Laurents

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and…

— Ron Silver

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and…

— Paul McGann

“Yes, it really knocked my confidence. I was really young when I went in, and I really wanted to please. I don’t…

— Decca Aitkenhead

I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't…

— Ashton Kutcher

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum…

— Jamie Bamber

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to…

— Steven Soderbergh

I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here…

— Tim Matheson

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the…

— Leigh Hunt

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

— John Patrick Shanley

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

— Barry Keoghan

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

— Keith David

If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

— Noel Coward

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

— Ted Shackelford

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

— Andrew Wyeth

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

— Anonymous

If a Girl said I hate drama there's a 99% that she is a huge drama queen

— Anonymous

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

— Pernell Roberts

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

— Pratik Gandhi

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

— Jet Li

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

— Bruce Willis

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

There are some actors that I know I won't do a film with no matter how good the film is.

— Ileana D'Cruz

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

— Domhnall Gleeson