Theatre Quotes · Page 471

Anyone who has watched 'Premam' in theaters would understand the camaraderie between the members on and off the screen and that's what…

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

The actor should understand the script and come prepared to play the role. At the same time, they should be flexible enough…

— Rajiv Menon

I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do…

— Mark Indelicato

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor…

— Anthony Hopkins

“That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself…

— Ransom Riggs

I played the Apollo Theatre as a novelty act when I was about eight-nine-10. I'd stand in the wings in case some…

— Demond Wilson

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now…

— George Washington Cable

As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different…

— Domhnall Gleeson

For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors…

— David Walton

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use…

— Athol Fugard

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

— Terry Pratchett

It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set,…

— Jenna Fischer

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to…

— Michele Lee

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in…

— Michael Shurtleff

When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach.…

— Maren Ade

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

— Jeff Perry

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really…

— James MacArthur

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

— Jack Nicholson

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

— David Duchovny

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to…

— Glenn Ford

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and…

— Matthew Davis

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and…

— Colin Callender

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

— Ian Mckellen

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or…

— Peter Dinklage

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

— Kate Winslet

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and…

— Michael Keaton

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

— Douglas Wood

Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized…

— Jensen Ackles

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an…

— Kerry Washington

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

— Linus Roache

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the…

— Matt Barr

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and…

— Alfred Molina

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of…

— Sidharth Malhotra

When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me…

— Zal Batmanglij

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

— William Kraft

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are…

— Laura Benanti

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

— Gian Carlo Menotti