Theatre Quotes · Page 93

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

— Matthew Lewis

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

— Joe Anderson

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

— Kristin Davis

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

— Teju Cole

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

— Hal Sparks

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

— Gail Godwin

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

— James Roday

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

— Ben Affleck

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?

— Ice Cube

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing…

— Yoko Ono

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage,…

— Randeep Hooda

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good…

— Michael J. Fox

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could…

— Tyler Perry

I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself,…

— Daniel Bryan

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or…

— Rick Famuyiwa

If you choose to do both [acting and directing] on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in…

— Rebecca Hall

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I…

— Steve McQueen

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff…

— Peter Scolari

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working…

— Howard Shore

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the…

— Frances Trollope

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to…

— Rory O'Malley

For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went…

— William Kircher

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

— Melissa Leo

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

— Stephan James

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

— Rajinikanth

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

— Casper Van Dien

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

— Ali Fazal

No matter how good of an actor I am, I can't un-act having cerebral palsy.

— Josh Blue

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

— Charlie Cox

When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

— Jack Lowden

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

— Adam Scott

In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect

— Tristan Bernard

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

— Buddy Guy

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

— Ben Mendelsohn

One day, those who play have to leave the stage.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

— Vikramaditya Motwane