Theatre Quotes · Page 84

Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.

— Jacob Batalon

I'm working with theatre-makers who are the top of their game, and it's extraordinary.

— Noma Dumezweni

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

— Ian Mckellen

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

— Don Rickles

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

— Kevin Schmidt

“CURTAIN CALL The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play”

— Kamil Ali

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

— Harry Dean Stanton

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

— Juliana Hatfield

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

— Bert Kalmar

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a…

— Darren Aronofsky

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it.…

— Ruthie Henshall

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in…

— Alex Lawther

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

— Caroline Flack

I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least…

— Josie Loren

To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure…

— Asa Butterfield

Musical theater, I think, is something one learns both from studying what went before and then actually doing it.

— Stephen Schwartz

“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the…

— Harold Bloom

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that…

— Catherine Camus

As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to…

— Michael McKean

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a…

— Tom Lenk

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a…

— Olesya Rulin

In an industry where actors are known to steal scenes and roles from under your nose Sohail bhai has been going out…

— Vatsal Sheth

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world,…

— Christian Bale

I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to…

— Sviatoslav Richter

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

— Fergie

It is quite common for actors to think that every job they get could be their last.

— Nick Searcy

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

— Shannon Purser

The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?

— Winona Ryder

I'm capable of extracting performances from my actors.

— Satish Kaushik

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

— William H. Macy

I don't want to alienate anyone because I do a lot of crazy stuff on stage.

— Sarah Sherman

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

— Jack Lemmon

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

— Kevin Hart

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

— Joe Elliott

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

— Tom Waits

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

Acting is embarrassing for me. Stand-up had to be taken away for me to consider it.

— Taylor Tomlinson

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.”

— Rebecca Wells