Theatre Quotes · Page 51

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

— Sanford Meisner

Work always comes first as an actor.

— Kat Graham

Actors always have opinions.

— Joe Pantoliano

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

Good drama must be drastic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

— Ednita Nazario

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

— Johnny Knoxville

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

— Harrison Ford

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

— Viola Davis

Trying to balance theatre and film is really important to me.

— Vanessa Kirby

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

— Shirley Chisholm

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

— Trevor Nunn

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

— Luigi Pirandello

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

— Jackie Cooper

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

— Luke Hemsworth

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both…

— Lucien Bourjeily

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I…

— Mike Leigh

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

— Marisa Tomei

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing…

— Deborah Kampmeier

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

— Josh McDermitt

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in…

— Adrianne Palicki

Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television…

— Matthew Davis

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater…

— Darby Stanchfield

The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With…

— Adhir Kalyan

I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and…

— Channing Tatum

While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together…

— Richard Grenell

Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want…

— Aneurin Barnard

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

— Thornton Wilder

I'm not an actor. I'm a personality.

— Fred MacMurray

I left drama school in the early '50s.

— Christopher Timothy

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

— Anthony Hopkins

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

— Matthew Lewis

Actors and singers just want fans and love.

— Rahul Vaidya

Actors are frightened little children.

— Alan Rosenberg

Happy people are just very talented actors.

— Nikhil Saluja