Theatre Quotes · Page 414

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

— Rob Lowe

As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me…

— Josh Holloway

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and…

— Dave Annable

I like to rehearse a lot. Before I hit the stage, I listen to the songs that I would perform and make…

— Cordae

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep…

— Brian Blessed

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

— Chad Stahelski

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

What I want is an international monument to the world's greatest playwright. It would be an attraction that would be both educational…

— Sam Wanamaker

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people.…

— Wallace Shawn

There are two schools of thought here. On one side you have 'only disabled actors can play disabled roles' and over here…

— Adam Pearson

As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw…

— Vince Vaughn

If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I worked with Michael Goode back in 2009. We had done a short film together where I was the actor and he…

— Daniel Lissing

Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director…

— Chadwick Boseman

My first starring role was in 'Rumpelstiltskin' and the lightbulb moment for me came when I had to stamp my foot at…

— Denis Lawson

I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in…

— Chris Weitz

I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a…

— Steven Spielberg

Theatre is a mass art form and is not meant to be elite, only for people who can afford the price of…

— Stephen Schwartz

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society…

— Janet Suzman

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something…

— Michael Fassbender

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing…

— Brad Hall

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get…

— William Monahan

I love being on stage and connecting with 2000 people, but you don't really see me that often at the Logies and…

— Anh Do

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the…

— Tony Randall

I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with.

— Little Simz

I've had a lot of trolling on Instagram, things I can't even repeat on air. The biggest shock was when it was…

— Shirley Ballas

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Working with young actors is really going with trust. I never see them act beforehand. Because that's not their job. It's my…

— Celine Sciamma

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and…

— Jefferson Mays

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting…

— Gary Oldman

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with…

— Josh Brolin

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a…

— Simon McBurney

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what…

— Nikki Cox

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

— Greg Giraldo

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's…

— Jacqueline McKenzie

My school entered a competition to perform a short play at the National Theatre. We won, I got scouted and I haven't…

— Dylan Llewellyn

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose…

— Rebecca Hall