Theatre Quotes · Page 96

Friends with the Benefit to be in a Drama Free Relationship.

— Candy War

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

— Jason Clarke

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

— Nelsan Ellis

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

— Alan Rickman

Stage fright is a real thing. It's debilitating to some people.

— Ari Shaffir

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

— George Cukor

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well.

— Sonya Walger

It's good to have a crossover cast in films. It brings larger audiences as each actor brings along their fans and viewers.

— Bhumika Chawla

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into…

— Orson Welles

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

— Kaya Scodelario

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just…

— Peter Berg

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the…

— Jay Maisel

“What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom”

— Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.

— Eileen Atkins

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and…

— Simon McBurney

I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I…

— Vir Das

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As…

— Casey Affleck

To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great…

— Francesca Jackson

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you…

— Michael Chiklis

“If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach…

— Laurence Oliver

You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But…

— Jude Law

I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy…

— Rainn Wilson

I always like to get back to the stage when I find something I want to do.

— Van Heflin

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Actors don't make a project; a project makes the actors.

— Bhumi Pednekar

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

— Larry Bishop

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

— Sofia Vassilieva

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are”

— Simone Elkeles

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

— Julia Stiles

“Drama of life may get gripping, intense or interesting but eventually it's still a drama.”

— Aditya Ajmera

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

— Vincent Schiavelli

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

— Maisie Williams

“I always thought I’d be the one to fuck on stage.”

— Bella Jeanisse

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

— George Cukor

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

— Vanessa Kirby

I am just an actor, I am given the script, the clothes, the get up.

— Kiku Sharda

I'm from a typical middle-class family and I grew up in a place without a theatre.

— Shriya Saran

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

— Anonymous