Theatre Quotes · Page 44

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

— Emmy Rossum

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

— Lamorne Morris

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

— Callan McAuliffe

I do think I'm a character actor.

— Colin Firth

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

— Romola Garai

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

— Samuel West

If you're an actor, go out and act.

— Simon McBurney

I always saw myself as a character actor.

— Lana Parrilla

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

— Keith Jarrett

“We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience.”

— Antonello Fiore

To be an actor, you have to love it and want it.

— Joe Don Baker

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

— Jerry Springer

I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

— Charles Dance

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

— Lucas Cruikshank

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Acting can happen in cinema, on television, on stage.

— Rajesh Khattar

When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but…

— Sophie Okonedo

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was…

— Olivia Wilde

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when…

— Gregory Hines

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

— Agnes Moorehead

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into…

— Cristin Milioti

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really…

— Robert Carlyle

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

— John Wilmot

Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time…

— Ben Marcus

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody…

— Emma Donoghue

“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be…

— Eric Bentley

When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to…

— Marielle Heller

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and…

— Simon McBurney

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with…

— Ben Kingsley

My first job was at the BBC but was really dull. I was working in the BBC's reference department, where I did…

— Matthew Bourne

I've always played Vash [in the Sausage Party]. I played him at the table read. We probably did five or six table…

— David Krumholtz

I started acting when I was 10.

— Mariette Hartley

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

— Heath Ledger

To be an actor you have to be a child.

— Paul Newman

My heroes were all in the theatre.

— Damian Lewis

I'm a character actor at heart.

— Shuler Hensley

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

— James Lipton

I never pretended to be a great actor.

— Joel McCrea

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

— Maura Tierney