Actor Quote by Timberlake Wertenbaker

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be…

— Peter Dinklage

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand…

— Huma Qureshi

Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.

— Richard Eyre

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

— Ellen Pompeo

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

— David Farr

I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn…

— Ian Mckellen

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

— Vincente Minnelli

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

— William Ivey Long

The truth of the matter is that I have a lot to prove to myself still as an actor. And I still have that…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come…

— Romola Garai