Theatre Quotes · Page 277

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

— Neko Case

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

— Marlon Brando

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

— Julie Benz

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

— Placido Domingo

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is…

— Anthony Hopkins

After graduating from University, I began directing in theatre too, and I've been directing, writing and acting ever since, which has allowed…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

Everyone in my family has a weird leg in the industry. My grandpa was a director and my grandma was a third…

— Phoebe Dynevor

For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never…

— Jeremy Irvine

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast…

— Herman Wouk

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form…

— Gene Kelly

“I think most of us have many personas inside us at the outset, but over time we lean to the one that…

— Jane Fonda

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something…

— Ridley Scott

I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a…

— Sia

I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work.…

— Will Poulter

In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know?…

— John C. Reilly

I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a…

— Jim Beaver

For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a…

— Taylor Kitsch

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you…

— Giovanni Ribisi

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for…

— Ariel Winter

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body…

— Cillian Murphy

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be…

— Vincent Cassel

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more…

— Kaya Scodelario

There are certain actors who, when they appear in a drama, you know exactly what you're going to get. That's not me…

— Adrian Lester

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

— Angela Bassett

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I…

— Matthew Bonifacio

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

— Peter Gallagher

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street…

— Denis Lavant

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things…

— Paul Haggis

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

— Aidan Turner

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater,…

— Peter Jacobson

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

— Ian Ziering

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

— Sophie Thompson