The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do. — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show. — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but… — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Now it's a hard time in every business with the current economic situation, so being an actor where you're seen in different… — Justin Chatwin Copy Share Image
I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I… — Mariana Klaveno Copy Share Image
It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect… — Edith Head Copy Share Image
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out… — Sydney Greenstreet Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man” — John Morley Copy Share Image
I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am. — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I've got four piercings in my left, so we've dubbed my right one the 'period drama ear.' I have to be filmed… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
I have been doing Marathi theatre for the past 15 years. The people there are very hardworking, talented and committed. But the… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like. — Tom Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene. — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
