Theatre Quotes · Page 88

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

— Adam Scott

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

— Renee O'Connor

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

— Paul Wesley

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

It was hard to get work when I was a young actor.

— Nigel Hawthorne

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end

— Georg Buchner

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

— Richard Dreyfuss

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

— Michael Ball

The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile…

— Joan Rivers

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with…

— Jill Davis

Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit…

— Paul Butcher

As an actor, I want to expand myself. If there's something I read that I feel like I'm not going to learn…

— Daniel Lissing

I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have…

— Rachael Stirling

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that…

— Kristen Stewart

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

— Richard Wilson

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the…

— Matt Besser

I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think…

— Rebecca Hall

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of…

— Linda Cardellini

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love…

— Annaleigh Ashford

“I know of no actor who is so pure onstage that he thinks only what his character thinks. If he did, he…

— David Burke

My wife, aside from being amazing in general, was really the catalyst in this, and I really owe a lot of the…

— Josh Cooke

It's something that I feel every young person goes through, this idea that they're not doing enough, or that they're stuck. Definitely…

— Shannon Purser

When we are filming, it often feels like we're flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are…

— Lela Loren

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

— Richard Dormer

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

— Jane Fonda

Everybody wants the big stage. I'm a guy that I want to be there.

— Juan Soto

There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.

— Kevin Bacon

“There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl,” ... “Except yours.”

— Rachel Caine

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

— Maggie Grace

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

— Estelle Parsons

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

— Roddy McDowall

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I don't think I even called myself an actor until I went to college and studied acting.

— Myha'la

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

— Ethel Merman

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.

— Marc Platt

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

— Amaal Mallik

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

— Constance Wu

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

— Ashton Sanders

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.

— Prateik Babbar