Theatre Quotes · Page 72

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

— Gus Van Sant

All actors have to change their name.

— Jeremy Irvine

I always had an actor within me.

— Adrien Brody

Link-ups are part of actors' lives.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

— Luke Perry

Turn up the music and turn down the drama.

— Anonymous

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

— William Hazlitt

I'm an actor, and I don't judge my parts.

— Swara Bhaskar

“The world is a stage. Life is an act... Just a balancing act.”

— Tapan Ghosh

I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.

— June Whitfield

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

— Mads Mikkelsen

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

— Hunter Parrish

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

— Michael C. Hall

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

— Gregory Nunn

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the…

— Steve Coogan

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

— Tony Shalhoub

I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually…

— Kay Kay Menon

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

— Benjamin Bratt

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as…

— Michael Caine

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

— Jeff Goldblum

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

— Jeffrey Pierce

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid.…

— Mike Myers

There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater…

— Christopher Guest

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I…

— Robert Wilson

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds…

— Gayle Rankin

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow…

— Ashley Jensen

I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling…

— Mia Wasikowska

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted…

— Robert Redford

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story…

— Michael Welch

I started a theater company when I was 17.

— Stephen Moyer

Drama school taught me not to be precious.

— Michaela Coel

You have to open up on stage.

— Karen O

I'm just a character actor.

— Dennis Farina

I take musical theater seriously.

— Alice Ripley

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

— Max von Sydow

I feel in control when I'm on stage.

— Francesca Hayward

I trained in the theatre.

— Danny Boyle