Acting Quote by Michael Gambon

Before my commercial career, I never played for more than an audience of 99 seats somewhere in downtown New York, but occasionally someone would…

— Paul Marcarelli

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole…

— Shelley Winters

“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see.…

— Susan Cooper

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but…

— Christy Mathewson

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to…

— Ian Mckellen

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

— Sylvester Stallone

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

“You don't have to say anything. Just play.”

— Jodi Meadows

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why it’s hard…

— Bill Watterson

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

— Albert Brooks