Theatre Quotes · Page 300

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set…

— Shirley Eaton

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to…

— John Boyega

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character…

— John Mahoney

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing.…

— Melissa Leo

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth…

— Stella Adler

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I have worked with so many actors, some have been stars, while at times, I have been at a better standing than…

— Abhinav Shukla

You come back with an actor for the second time only when you had a successful and creatively satisfying experience the first…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to…

— Edward Furlong

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller…

— Charlie Hunnam

I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live…

— T.C. Boyle

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or…

— Sharon Stone

She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it…

— Rob Lowe

I was on a tour of a Restoration comedy in 1996, and in Moscow we stayed at the Metropole hotel, off Red…

— Nicola Walker

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda…

— Jonny Lang

I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the…

— Bill Engvall

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in…

— Marc Webb

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and…

— Viola Davis

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote…

— Dirk Benedict

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of…

— Kate Walsh

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

— Miguel Ferrer

I was never into drama and theatre in school, so I never participated in Christmas skits that were often a part of…

— Gautam Rode

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

— Millicent Simmonds

There's always that siren song call from America for actors, I think, in Canada. You always want to know, you never want…

— Lauren Ash

I like the stage lights to be bright so I can't see people because I will inevitably only see the ones who…

— Michael McIntyre

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making…

— Charles Kimbrough

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be…

— Cillian Murphy

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big…

— Anubhav Sinha

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't…

— Jessie Mueller

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of…

— Fanny Kemble

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to…

— Ansel Elgort

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not…

— Tom Hollander

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I…

— Amanda Marshall

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to…

— Ray Stevenson

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

— Laurie Anderson

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a…

— Rhys Ifans

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

— Mora Stephens

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid,…

— Anthony Michael Hall

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

— James Badge Dale