Theatre Quotes · Page 376

I started doing musical theatre when I was six years old. It was all I ever wanted to do - my mother…

— Myha'la

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their…

— Mike Leigh

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts…

— Derek Cianfrance

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own…

— Iwan Rheon

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject…

— Juliette Binoche

As an actor you feel constant pressure as you are watched continuously... you have to be presentable and good in every area.

— Prachi Desai

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by…

— Conrad Veidt

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it…

— Anna Chancellor

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It…

— Lou Doillon

I believe we are moving towards a utopia where pretty much any actor can play anything - soon we'll get to a…

— Adrian Lester

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are…

— George Bernard Shaw

Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute…

— Michael Ondaatje

I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a…

— James Dean

It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of…

— Sam Shepard

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to…

— Patrick J. Adams

If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from…

— Jeremy Renner

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as…

— Michael Moriarty

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

— Olivia Wilde

When I was sent the material for auditions for 'Dramaworld,' I didn't know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.

— Liv Hewson

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The…

— Maureen Stapleton

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in…

— Anonymous

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

— Robert Lansing

If we talk about character actors they are always in demand. Actress like Aruna Irani will always be needed in a script.

— Sudha Chandran

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a…

— Harvey Fierstein

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to…

— Kelly McGillis

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

— Laila Robins

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of -…

— Jim Gaffigan

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Even if actors ask for more money, will producers fulfill their demands? They might just show us the door.

— Amruta Khanvilkar

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

— Vanessa Redgrave

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's…

— Kelvin Fletcher

I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I…

— Roger Rees

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and…

— Sean Baker

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got…

— Eric McCormack

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was…

— Adan Canto

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,…

— Henry Rollins

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire…

— James Franco