Theatre Quotes · Page 468

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena…

— Simon Callow

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices…

— Natalie Dormer

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to…

— Zach Braff

“It was like two invisible puppeteers, standing stage left and stage right, were yanking on strings to lift up the corners of…

— Sandhya Menon

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

— Doseone

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

— Richard Wilson

I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who…

— Taylor Schilling

I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a…

— Jason Dohring

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table…

— George Farquhar

Films I've really liked are when you've walked out and you're still in that movie for a while. That's virtual reality for…

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play…

— Amanda Peet

I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If…

— Andrew Garfield

I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.…

— Pam Grier

Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.…

— Justin Cartwright

People tell me I'm a drama queen. I don't get why that's a bad thing. If I'm a queen, don't I get…

— Green Monk

A girl who boo hoo's and ba ha's about all the shit in her life that's going on claiming "Too much drama"…

— Anonymous

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

— Stacy Keach

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in…

— Teri Hatcher

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?

— Ice Cube

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing…

— Yoko Ono

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage,…

— Randeep Hooda

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

— Kurt Fuller

I believe in giving actors the freedom to express themselves, and adding more to whatever is written.

— Arbaaz Khan

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a…

— Navid Negahban

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me…

— Teddy Pendergrass

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

— Shannon Lee

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love…

— Dan Amboyer

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

— Madeleine L'Engle

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

— Michiel Huisman

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work…

— Dan Stevens

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

— Rob Lowe

I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

— Will Rothhaar

I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey…

— Kevin Daniels

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do…

— Zawe Ashton

The world is a theatre. Everyone is playing their roles. You play your role best and everything will happen appropriately.

— Kshitij Roshan

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms…

— Tim Crouch