Theatre Quotes · Page 358

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to…

— Jason Bateman

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.

— Tom Weston-Jones

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them…

— Noel Coward

I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just…

— Jim Gaffigan

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other…

— Mohanlal

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

— Paresh Rawal

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a…

— Annette Bening

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have…

— Kirk Cameron

The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you…

— Jesse Armstrong

Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in…

— Kate Winslet

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and…

— Andy Serkis

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality…

— Wesley Snipes

My mum, in 2007, was invited by some Australian friends in London to a fringe theatre play reading of an unrehearsed, unproduced…

— Tom Hooper

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's…

— John Lloyd Young

Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.

— Hiten Tejwani

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many,…

— Timothy Olyphant

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill…

— Rupert Friend

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four…

— Lake Bell

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an…

— Eli Roth

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a…

— Marisa Tomei

My comedy is about nothing. I do it because I feel less inadequate on stage moving about than I do off stage…

— Lee Evans

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the…

— Michael Kelly

In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really…

— Dylan O'Brien

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

— Michael Pena

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

— Henry Cavill

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football…

— John Malkovich

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I…

— Idris Elba

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

— Tom Hanks

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

— Justin Chon

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is…

— Kalki Koechlin

As an actor, one should be aware of all their capabilities. This is important, as films are becoming more realistic.

— Rajiv Menon

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

— Hari Nef

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

— Kevin Spacey

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a…

— Ron Perlman

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along…

— Orson Bean