Theatre Quotes · Page 49

Parts win prizes, not actors.

— Alan Rickman

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

— Tony Shalhoub

To be an actor, you have to have patience.

— Tripti Dimri

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

— Laura Bell Bundy

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

— Sean Hayes

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

— Michael Hutchence

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

— Harold Pinter

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

— Skeet Ulrich

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

— Rudyard Kipling

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

— Caleb Deschanel

Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

— Daveed Diggs

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

— Rebecca Romijn

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

— Sarah Harding

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of…

— Pawan Kalyan

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

— Jane Krakowski

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

— George Allen

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

— Christopher Guest

My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.

— Vijay Deverakonda

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

— Lena Headey

I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I…

— Michael Keaton

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one…

— Eric Andre

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For…

— Patrick Stewart

I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first,…

— Carol Kane

That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your…

— Jason Clarke

I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped…

— Timothy Simons

I have done a lot of short dramas that are three, four or five episodes and so that makes the filming process…

— Ashley Walters

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be…

— Matthew Lillard

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want…

— Steve Guttenberg

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet…

— David Lambert

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

— James Van Der Beek

As an actor, I draw from myself.

— Richard Cabral

I never got any advice in acting.

— Fred Willard

There are too many stars and too few actors.

— Bruce Lee

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

— Debra Winger

Actors were the first people to accept me.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

— Pete Olson

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

— Matt Czuchry