Theatre Quotes · Page 483

I'm definitely not the same actor that I was when I was 9 years old, and that's because my intentions, my goals,…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

— Betty White

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

— Sean Hayes

I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,…

— Atul Kulkarni

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find…

— Robert Carlyle

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to…

— Julianne Moore

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play…

— Billy Bob Thornton

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor…

— Phoebe Fox

I can never remember a time when I didn't want to be an actress, to be honest. And so, all through high…

— Mikaela Hoover

I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change…

— Emma Thompson

I never wanted to be an actor. Because when you're an actor, you depend on other people to come to you with…

— Vikram Bhatt

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches…

— Scott Adsit

I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an…

— Kay Kay Menon

When I first went for a meeting with my management company, the guy in charge of the place, David Prince, said that…

— Chris Webby

I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's…

— Carrie Fisher

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

— Jacob Tremblay

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes…

— Renee Fleming

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

— Emun Elliott

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and…

— Woody Allen

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

— Lawrence Wright

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

— Jason Gann

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

— James Nesbitt

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

— Jason Gann

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the…

— Tom Hanks

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of…

— Patti LuPone

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act…

— Vivien Leigh

Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are…

— Clark Gregg

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about…

— Pankaj Kapur

I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the…

— Kevin Bacon

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and…

— John Lithgow

You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

— Dana Brunetti

I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad,…

— Dean Geyer

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in…

— Richard Corliss

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really…

— Amber Heard

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it…

— Alexander Mackendrick

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and…

— Ricky Whittle

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors…

— Morris Chestnut

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to…

— Julia Stiles