Theatre Quotes · Page 276

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

— Payal Rohatgi

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

— Cassandra Clare

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

— Abhay Deol

There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'

— Frank Grillo

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

— Roberto Orci

I feel that every actor should do at least one movie with Tigmanshu Dhulia.

— Ravi Kishan

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part…

— Sophie Marceau

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

— Michael Urie

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got…

— Carmen Ejogo

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all…

— Reeve Carney

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

— Paul Newman

I'm very interested in the drama of the leading man being someone who is incapable, becoming capable.

— David Harbour

You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if…

— Jared Gilman

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't…

— Rene Auberjonois

Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring…

— Tom Stoppard

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Not long ago a friend asked me what was the greatest pleasure I got from spending my whole life as an actor.…

— Buster Keaton

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world…

— Fran Kranz

My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff - not to say I wouldn't want to do a comedy…

— Michael Cudlitz

Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70…

— Peter Graves

“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought…

— Alfred Jarry

I think [The Outsiders] really forged who I am as an actor, and it's one of the reasons why I keep being…

— Rob Lowe

Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.

— Pooja Bhatt

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

— Claudia Christian

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

— Maria Callas

Everything that has come my way has moulded me as an actor and as a person.

— Sushmita Sen

Would I be happy just to be an actor? I don't think I would.

— Sergei Polunin

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

— Nina Conti

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

— Michael Chiklis

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

— Heinrich Heine

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

— Matthew Weiner

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

— Eugene Ionesco

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

— Zawe Ashton

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

— Chris Burke

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

— Andrew Davies

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

— Tisca Chopra