Theatre Quotes · Page 99

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

— Tom Stoppard

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

— Stephen Colletti

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

— Alyce Cornyn-Selby

I would have never thought when I was a young actor that I would want to direct.

— Soni Razdan

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

— Asghar Farhadi

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

— Aldous Harding

I'm not someone that's problematic. I don't like to cause problems. I don't like uncomfortable situations. I don't like drama.

— Weston McKennie

I've done jobs where I thought, 'I don't want to be that kind of actor; I don't want to work on something…

— Rooney Mara

Every department from the director to the art takes their time to set up, similarly as an actor it is your responsibility…

— Tripti Dimri

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

— Sean Harris

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with…

— Ben Kingsley

I've felt very comfortable on stage and love making people laugh. It's that kind of addictive thing where you get a laugh…

— Lucy DeVito

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody…

— Christopher Walken

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

— Bertrand Bonello

There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification,…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I…

— David Harbour

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and…

— Bhumi Pednekar

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be…

— James Roday

There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or…

— Zoe Saldana

“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects…

— Peter L. Berger

In Providence, we didn't have a first-run movie theater. But we did have an indie movie theatre on the Brown campus. That…

— Susanna Fogel

I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more…

— Gerard Butler

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

— Gary Sinise

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

— Mark Ruffalo

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

— Shraddha Srinath

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

— Sigourney Weaver

I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

— Belinda Carlisle

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

— Robin Morgan

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

— Martin Landau

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.

— Jerry Lewis

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

— Jeffrey Wright

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

— Stephen Chow

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

— Lucas Neff

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

— Clint Eastwood

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

— Bruce Dern

I keep my nose clean. I let the drama go on with somebody else.

— Ralphie May