Theatre Quotes · Page 75

Actors can make your film better.

— Kelly Reichardt

I watch a lot of TV dramas.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Before a celeb or a star, I am an actor.

— Karan Wahi

I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.

— Michael T. Weiss

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not a very good actor.

— Anonymous

There can't be competition between actors.

— Pratik Gandhi

You know, I come from an acting background.

— Kyle Gass

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

— Vicky Kaushal

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

— Joe Namath

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

— Ira Glass

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

— Jack Barakat

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

— Ken Jeong

I don't like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.

— Nicholas Hammond

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

— Laurence Fishburne

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first…

— Aaron Paul

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

— Christy Mathewson

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

— Dean Haglund

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene…

— Jacob Vargas

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as…

— Matt Dillon

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my…

— Madisen Beaty

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

— Gustav Mahler

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if…

— Johnny Flynn

Writing and acting are almost diametrically opposed in terms of being an actor it's in your interest to be in shape and…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior…

— Bruce Springsteen

The average person didn't really know what my role was. Obviously, on stage, Karen was the star of the duo. I urged…

— Richard Carpenter

That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to…

— Viola Davis

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a…

— Atticus Shaffer

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more…

— Amybeth McNulty

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

— Rutina Wesley

“Who can enjoy acting in an empty theater ?”

— William Bolitho

As an actor, you're different in every role.

— Ashley Walters

I don't want to die on the stage.

— Wilson Pickett

No space should be safe from theatre.

— John Tiffany

As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.

— Dean-Charles Chapman

I don't really see myself as an actor.

— Youssou N'Dour

I have to evolve as an actor.

— Gautam Rode