Theatre Quotes · Page 266

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

— Arden Myrin

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

— Robert Taylor

I was trained in theatre so the seriousness was there. I never went in for the glamour.

— Rohini Hattangadi

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

— Italia Ricci

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

— Anonymous

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

— Peter Coyote

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

— Parker Posey

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

— Kevin Spacey

My tips for any budding actors would be to go out and see as much as you possibly can. Find the people…

— Andrew Gower

I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am…

— Paul Rudd

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to…

— Kaitlyn Dever

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing…

— Rita Rudner

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it…

— Jacki Weaver

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control…

— Nicole Kidman

“Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and…

— ayn rand

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than…

— Phyllis Battelle

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the…

— Al Pacino

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are…

— Zoe Kazan

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to…

— Sonu Sood

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that…

— Marc Warren

“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's…

— Sanford Meisner

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become…

— Sylvia Kristel

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains…

— Melinda Clarke

The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, "I'm an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job."…

— Patton Oswalt

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

— Arthur Darvill

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

— Randy Rainbow

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

— Emanuel Azenberg

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

— La La Anthony

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

— Helen Hayes

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

— Tom Hiddleston

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

— Jake Epstein

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

— Jemima Kirke

I just fell in love with the whole process of auditioning and bonding with theater people.

— Melissa Barrera

I think going on stage and putting on a concert for a night would be cool.

— Chase Elliott

When I play any of the top teams or the top players, it's a stage.

— Mike Conley Jr

'Marjaavaan' was a huge success among mass audience and at single-scene theaters.

— Bhushan Kumar

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

— Milos Forman

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

— Mako

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

As for actors, I'm hugely in awe of Cate Blanchett - and Meryl Streep, obviously.

— Phoebe Dynevor