Actors Quote by Angela Lansbury

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

— Wayne Rogers

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct…

— Leslie Caron

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play,…

— Treat Williams

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can…

— Stephen Sondheim

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way.…

— Larry Fessenden

For someone who works in theatre, the rehearsal is where you discover everything. It is where magic happens, where the script enters you and…

— Ali Fazal

I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting…

— Lynn Nottage

Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those…

— Kate Winslet

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black