Actors Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

— Maggie Siff

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, 'You…

— Paul Rudd

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

— Paresh Rawal

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you…

— Cate Blanchett

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you…

— Zeljko Ivanek

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know.…

— Pearl Cleage

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to…

— Matt Bomer

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore…

— Anna Deavere Smith