Theatre Quotes · Page 97

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

— Jules Renard

No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

— Laurence Sterne

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

— Ernie Harwell

I think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

In a drama, you're always looking for things to create conflict with.

— Gareth Evans

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

— Will Smith

“Family drama is a trade off for having family.”

— C.C. Hunter

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely…

— Mila Kunis

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and…

— Constantin Stanislavski

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and…

— Tom Conti

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like,…

— Jessica Chastain

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I…

— Darren Aronofsky

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

— Robert Lepage

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can…

— Mark Consuelos

I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will…

— Pankaj Kapur

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.…

— Derek Jacobi

Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual.…

— Rachel Morrison

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.…

— Clint Eastwood

I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor?…

— Malcolm McDowell

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It…

— Lupita Nyong'o

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same…

— Richard Estes

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

— Mark Kurlansky

My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

God is dead, and there is an actor playing his part

— Martin Charnin

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

— Angie Harmon

If I wanted some drama, I would rather watch a movie.

— Anonymous

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

— Pam Grier

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.

— Ashton Irwin

How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?

— Fred Willard

It is the theater God would have built if he had the money.

— Henry Geldzahler

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

— Isaac Goldberg

“You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.”

— Kylie Scott

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

— Bradley Walsh

“When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.”

— Dr Paul Enenche

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

— Tabu

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

— Peter Gallagher

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey