Theatre Quotes · Page 369

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's…

— T. R. Knight

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices…

— Bertie Carvel

I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to…

— Terrence J

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do.…

— David Wenham

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

— Akshaye Khanna

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't…

— Billy Bob Thornton

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going…

— Freddy Rodriguez

[Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one…

— Rob Lowe

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because…

— Diane Paulus

Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential.…

— Sandra Oh

“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying,…

— Emraan Hashmi

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day…

— Noah Baumbach

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the…

— David Brinkley

My preference will always be theatre because it's where my heart lies and it's what I started with and eventually I want…

— Gemma Arterton

There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything…

— Brea Grant

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

— Joshua Jackson

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there.…

— Lupita Nyong'o

With Dream Theater, every creative aspect of the group went through me. I oversaw it all from top to bottom.

— Mike Portnoy

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking…

— Toby Stephens

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on…

— Alan King

I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least…

— Mike Faist

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about…

— Sam Heughan

Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what…

— Rajpal Yadav

The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens…

— Willis Earl Beal

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden…

— Harry Hamlin

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

— Signe Baumane

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the…

— Thornton Wilder

I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or…

— Brad Pitt

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life.…

— Jim Parsons

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just…

— Paul Bettany

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood,…

— Chris Massoglia

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

— Fanny Kemble

There's just so much experience that comes with being on set and working with good actors, and having bad days and good…

— Camila Morrone

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

— Sydney Greenstreet

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but…

— Carrie Coon