Theatre Quotes · Page 27

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

— Tessa Blanchard

I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York.

— Timothee Chalamet

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I like to continue as a good actor.

— Biju Menon

I'm most at home on the stage.

— Alan Alda

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

— Bill Nighy

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

— Ram Dass

It was never my goal to be an actor.

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

— Morgan Freeman

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

— John Frankenheimer

I believe when you work hard, even if you are a mediocre actor, the audience connects to you.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

— Jason Priestley

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

— Karl Kraus

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

— Jean Dujardin

I really enjoy the process of making movies. The only thing that really concerns me is working with great directors and actors,…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

— Holly Hunter

You are not here to sit in the audience for anyone's drama & strife..but to be the star of your own life!

— Anonymous

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

— William Monahan

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to…

— Douglas Wilson

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Certainly with stage, as I'm remembering, you don't get to spend any time at home. With film, you might do three, four…

— Mark Bonnar

If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance…

— Matt Damon

So you want to take the risk, and you want to step out there; you do it because that's what we have…

— Corey Hawkins

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because…

— Hugh Jackman

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen…

— Alex O'Loughlin

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked…

— Kyle MacLachlan

For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in…

— Aaron Paul

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy…

— Peter Fonda

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

— Blythe Danner

I got into theater at an early age.

— Kevin Daniels

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

— Ian Mckellen

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

— Matt Czuchry

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

— Pete Olson

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

— Anne Parillaud

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

— Kate Smith

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

— Michael Hutchence