Theatre Quotes · Page 28

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

— Harold Pinter

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

— Sean Hayes

To be an actor, you have to have patience.

— Tripti Dimri

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

— Laura Bell Bundy

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

— Debra Winger

Actors were the first people to accept me.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I never got any advice in acting.

— Fred Willard

There are too many stars and too few actors.

— Bruce Lee

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

— Kevin Bacon

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

— Peter Capaldi

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

— John Ratzenberger

To say I'm a difficult actor is just inaccurate.

— Ken Wahl

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

— Jeremy Irons

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.

— Anthony Carrigan

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

— Alyssa Milano

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

— Woody Allen

I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to…

— Amanda Bynes

It breaks my heart to hear of our theatres struggling to survive. As well as playing a vital role in community life,…

— Prunella Scales

“Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply…

— Giacomo Casanova

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that…

— Rhea Chakraborty

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

— Annette Bening

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

— Martin Landau

I don't really feel like I'm building a career or trying to be this kind of actor or that kind of actor.

— Jacob Elordi

During dad's time, we didn't have many sabhas to nurture plays. Later soaps threatened to subdue theatre.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a…

— Nick Offerman

We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room]…

— Stephen Kendrick

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about…

— Lynn Shelton

“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do…

— Aristotle

I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a…

— Ric Roman Waugh

None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade,…

— Vin Diesel

At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so…

— Anubhav Sinha

I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story.…

— Jamie-Lynn Sigler

As an actor, I draw from myself.

— Richard Cabral

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

— Skeet Ulrich

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

— James Van Der Beek

The theater should always be a safe space.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

When I was 11, I said I wanted to be an actor.

— Cameron Britton

I am in a constant stage of development.

— Ridley Scott

Some actors retire, and some don't.

— David Jason

I'd like to be recognized as a versatile actor.

— Varun Sandesh