Theatre Quotes · Page 98

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

— Carrie Underwood

I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball and theatre.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

— George Strait

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

— Andy Serkis

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

— Christopher Guest

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

— Finn Wolfhard

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

— Sally Field

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater…

— Alan Rickman

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

— Charles Saatchi

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

— Angad Bedi

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see…

— Michael Moore

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

— Caroline Quentin

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and…

— Vagit Alekperov

Sometimes when an actor returns to work after three or four years in service, he is assigned inferior roles because the studio…

— Van Heflin

I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants…

— Nathalie Emmanuel

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that,…

— Dexter Fletcher

If I only did TV show, I'd probably not be the happiest girl. I love the show, but I'm an actor and…

— Jane Levy

Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can…

— Shefali Shah

When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,…

— Simon McBurney

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

I'm an actor first then an anchor. Had I not been a popular actor, I'd have probably not got the opportunity to…

— Karan Wahi

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a…

— Sonoya Mizuno

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

— Vin Diesel

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

— Dori Berinstein

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

— Sara Blakely

For most actors, it is the script that chooses them and not the other way around.

— Manoj Bajpayee

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

— Stefanie Powers

I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.

— Michelle Dockery

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

— Al Pacino

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

— Missi Pyle

When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

— Arvind Swami

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

— David Jason

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

— Derek Magyar

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

— Michael Caine

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

— Chad Lowe

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

— Edward Bond

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

— Alan Tudyk