Theatre Quotes · Page 83

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

— Patti Smith

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

— Drake

Theatre especially in Hindi is not enough to help an artiste in earning a livelihood.

— Himani Shivpuri

I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.

— Essie Davis

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

— Aden Young

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

— Alex Trebek

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

— James Broughton

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”

— Oscar Wilde

“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines…

— Samantha Sotto Yambao

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad…

— Ice Cube

Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.

— Zia Haider Rahman

People say they don't see it but when I was little in junior college, I was a drama queen. I just demanded…

— Cordarrelle Patterson

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

— Meaghan Jette Martin

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see…

— George C. Wolfe

With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.

— Andrew Haigh

I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which…

— Arbaaz Khan

“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one…

— Haruki Murakami

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just…

— Sandra Oh

I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash…

— Anika Noni Rose

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it…

— Gary Oldman

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them.…

— Ice Cube

“This feeling of power, it's happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I'm semi-idiot, and…

— Anonymous

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping…

— J. G. Ballard

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have…

— Tyne Daly

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

— Melina Kanakaredes

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

— William H. Macy

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.

— Lindsay Price

Theatre is always going to be an important part of my life.

— Mandira Bedi

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

— Alan Jay Lerner

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

— Judge Reinhold

If drama school was like doing a BA, coming to the Court was like an MA or a PhD.

— Lesley Sharp

I fear drama more than films. The amount of work and exhaustion are incomparable.

— Gong Hyo-jin

I'm a real theatre kid - that's all I ever wanted to be.

— Michelle Visage

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

— Shia LaBeouf

I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.

— Ammy Virk

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

— Talcott Parsons

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

— Shirley Bassey

Actors improvise on the stage and enjoy interacting with audiences.

— Y. G. Mahendran

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

— Jason McCoy