Theatre Quotes · Page 78

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

— Rider Strong

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

— Jeremy London

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

— Sissy Spacek

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

— Ian Mckellen

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

— Christopher Parker

When a film doesn't do well, people start doubting you as an actor.

— Neil Nitin Mukesh

If you are a good actor then you are good at comedy.

— Sajid Khan

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't…

— Max Reinhardt

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with…

— David Oakes

I share a very good rapport with Shah Rukh, so I was at ease working with him, and Imtiaz is a dream…

— Anushka Sharma

I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings…

— Mark Rylance

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard…

— Morgan Freeman

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

— David O. Russell

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad…

— Kenneth Branagh

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your…

— Martin Landau

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood.…

— Tony Goldwyn

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have…

— Zoe Kazan

I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my…

— Nathan Fillion

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about…

— Carol Kane

I worked with some of the best actors I've ever worked with: Mel Blanc and Don Messick. They could play a scene…

— Tim Matheson

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible.…

— Ben Affleck

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get…

— Michael Shurtleff

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

— John Cameron Mitchell

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

— Kevin Pollak

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

— Zach Braff

I don't really know how to write a straight drama.

— Eva Victor

I started when I was really young. I did a lot of local theatre. I always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

— Iain Glen

If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.

— Del Shores

The stage is where I started, and there is a tremendous satisfaction in doing a good play.

— Van Heflin

“You are prominent! Play your role on the world stage.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

— Van Heflin

An actor can be as good as the opportunity that he/she gets.

— Mohnish Bahl

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

— D. W. Griffith

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

— Waheeda Rehman

I want to be a director's actor and stay true to their vision.

— Samuthirakani