Theatre Quotes · Page 85

I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.

— Ian Brown

It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

— Julian Bream

I think I've said I'm the luckiest actor in the world. I mean that.

— Adam West

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

— Amanda Seyfried

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

— Matthew Broderick

I want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

— Scott Eastwood

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

— Bertolt Brecht

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

— Ed Asner

“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.”

— Aristotle

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

— Joel McHale

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the…

— Bill Skarsgard

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

— George Santayana

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and…

— Jerry Reed

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything…

— Ricky Schroder

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

— Dakota Blue Richards

I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that

— Todd Barry

Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions,…

— Barun Sobti

Well, animation is the closest of the film media, or genres if you will, to stage because it's very artificial. Let's face…

— Stephen Schwartz

I feel like I've found my voice in the actor's business. Because when you first get out of school and you're looking…

— Anna Camp

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be…

— Miriam Margolyes

I was a very outgoing guy. I loved roaming around, hanging out with friends. From class 5th, I practised and learnt martial…

— Rajkummar Rao

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets…

— Mireille Enos

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they…

— John Berger

I come from a small village called Murud Janjira near Alibaug. I started doing theatre right from school days and later joined…

— Nana Patekar

I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.

— Ammy Virk

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

— Amanda Hale

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

— Peter Capaldi

One of my favorite actors is Jack Lemmon. I would love to have a career like that.

— Josh Duhamel

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

— Laurie Metcalf

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

— Mark Twain

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

— Antonio Banderas

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

— Romany Malco

No matter how creatively satisfying theatre might be, it is a poorly-paid medium, which is sad.

— Himani Shivpuri

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

— David Byrne

I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.

— Doug Liman

Now, being a model and an actor, I'm trying to learn more as my profession demands it.

— Urvashi Rautela

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

— Anton Chekhov

How are you gonna say I hate drama but your the one that always starting it?

— Syoung

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

— Charlotte Rae