Theatre Quotes · Page 80

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

— Thia Megia

“The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors”

— William Shakespeare

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun.'

— Divya Khosla Kumar

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

— Edward Albee

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.

— Antonin Artaud

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

— Paul Virilio

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

— Ken Howard

Dont have time for miserable people and unnecessary drama.

— Anonymous

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and…

— Niels Bohr

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting…

— Jason Winer

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick,…

— Criss Angel

Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating.

— Nigel Hawthorne

It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it.…

— Hattie Morahan

Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel…

— Peter Brook

I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be…

— Jeremy Luke

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also…

— Vladimir Putin

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and…

— Jack Reynor

I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in…

— Sienna Miller

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not…

— Rachel Weisz

There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV…

— Ronald D. Moore

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,…

— Tony Kushner

I have been fortunate to get different types of work, but by and large till 90s for actors like me there were…

— Pankaj Kapur

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

— Adrian Lewis

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

— Orlando Bloom

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

— Brett Gelman

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

— Kit Harington

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

— Michael Shurtleff

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

— Becky G

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.

— Tom Burke

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

— Vivien Leigh

I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.

— Julian Nagelsmann

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm not married to an actor. I'd never make that mistake again.

— Patti D'Arbanville

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

— Michael Portillo

“He who laughs last should not go out to movie theaters.”

— Gordon Highland