Theatre Quotes · Page 55

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

— Kriti Kharbanda

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

I was on stage at a young age.

— Cailee Spaeny

Drama often obscures the real issues

— Jenny Holzer

I think I can work with any type of actor.

— Ang Lee

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

— Constantin Stanislavski

Each actor requires a different language.

— Oliver Stone

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

— Orlando Bloom

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

— Chadwick Boseman

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

— Mariska Hargitay

As an actor, I wouldn't reject a scene because I felt awkward or disturbed.

— Tripti Dimri

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

— Diljit Dosanjh

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

— Roger Moore

It's always really cool as an actor to have a character that people want to see the best for.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

It's a bit unusual that I'm the novelist and the actor who is reading out his own material.

— Pankaj Kapur

I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.

— Mukesh Tiwari

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of…

— Terry Pratchett

“the less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows…

— Kevin Spacey

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it…

— Wanda Sykes

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became…

— Mike Figgis

In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting…

— Hugh Skinner

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on…

— Ruth Negga

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make…

— Dawn French

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends…

— Kara Lindsay

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're…

— David Oyelowo

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form…

— Harold Prince

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it…

— Ben Schnetzer

I believe if you go to a movie theatre, and you see something you think is incredible, if you walk out of…

— Kevin Spacey

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like…

— John Cusack

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I…

— Michael Fassbender

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting…

— Ron Perlman

As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a…

— Elijah Wood

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

— Paul Blackthorne

If your not an actor you can never be factor.

— Kevin McCarty

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

— Lleyton Hewitt

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

— Will Poulter

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

— Truman Capote

Theatre was always my passion.

— Stephen Moyer

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

— Sarah Baker

I had never dreamt of acting.

— Himesh Reshammiya