Theatre Quotes · Page 500

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love…

— Jay Kay

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now,…

— Robert Guillaume

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that…

— Taron Egerton

The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I never said I want to be an actor. I just went quietly, quietly, I'm going to do this myself, so I…

— Aaron Pedersen

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role…

— Zareen Khan

I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I…

— Martin Landau

I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising…

— Ray Fearon

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,…

— Howard Barker

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school.…

— Prunella Scales

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With…

— Benicio Del Toro

I hate talking about class, but the truth is as an actor you're only going to be doing some really great work…

— Zawe Ashton

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to…

— Jessica White

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a…

— Woody Harrelson

If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will…

— Colin Callender

I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being.…

— George C. Scott

I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world,…

— Nazanin Boniadi

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've…

— Sophie Cookson

Funny how people hate being in a situation they caused themselves. If you hate drama, don't cause it. Simple as that.

— Sarah Moores

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

— Varun Dhawan

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly…

— Howard Hawks

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on…

— Billie Burke

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That…

— Krithi Shetty

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with…

— Mawra Hocane

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

— John Lithgow

I don't chalk out my career thinking that I want to first do serious drama, then a comedy or an action. I…

— Kunal Khemu

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

— Jessica Chastain

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

— Cameron Diaz

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun…

— Frankie Muniz

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.…

— R. Kelly

Even as a producer, I want to work with certain actors. Now, if they don't want to be a part of the…

— Dino Morea

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

— Frank Grillo

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of…

— Ethan Hawke

I've come from theatre and you have different productions of a text in theatre. It's not unusual.

— Chris Chibnall

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,…

— Sanford Meisner

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine…

— Dan Fogelberg

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

— Mark Duplass