Actors Quote by Helen Hayes

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same…

— Jennifer Stone

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a…

— Romany Malco

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I…

— Bertie Carvel

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor…

— David Henry Hwang

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one…

— Karl Kraus

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to…

— Evelyn Waugh

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people…

— Lee Unkrich

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

When I was doing theatre in Mumbai, actors won't come because they had television. For many years, I did theatre religiously and in Mumbai,…

— Pankaj Kapur

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet…

— Tony Kushner

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't…

— Scott Derrickson