Theatre Quotes · Page 61

I'm an actor of the theater.

— Russell Hornsby

I have to evolve as an actor.

— Gautam Rode

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

— Ingrid Bergman

I always come back to acting.

— Bill Pullman

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

— Tommy Wiseau

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

— James Lipton

Actors are very generous.

— Blythe Danner

“Our stage is set by love.”

— Laura Chouette

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

One of my favorite actors is Jack Lemmon. I would love to have a career like that.

— Josh Duhamel

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

— Amanda Hale

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

— Peter Capaldi

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

— Laurie Metcalf

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

— Antonio Banderas

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

— Romany Malco

I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.

— Nigel Hawthorne

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That…

— Chadwick Boseman

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

— Lady Gaga

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

— Robert Guillaume

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

— Sam Mendes

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

I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.

— Rob Marshall

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible…

— Alex Kingston

I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this…

— Christian Bale

What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way…

— Zooey Deschanel

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a…

— Jason Segel

I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked…

— John Krasinski

“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert…

— Terry Eagleton

Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really…

— Barbara Crampton

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Theatre is immediate gratification

— Chita Rivera

We earn quite a lot through stage shows.

— Rahul Vaidya

The actors I admire are character actors.

— Chaske Spencer

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

— Alfred Hitchcock

There can't be competition between actors.

— Pratik Gandhi

I'm not a very good actor.

— Anonymous

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

— Rutina Wesley

You know, I come from an acting background.

— Kyle Gass