Acting Quote by W. H. Auden

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition and…

— Andy Serkis

Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a…

— Brian Cox

No actors worth their salt get through a single performance without forgetting their lines and bumping into the furniture. It's one of the first…

— Rebecca Front

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and…

— Bhumi Pednekar

I think less so now in the industry, but that was a big thing, actors going method, throwing chairs. And I'm like 'who's that…

— Nicola Coughlan

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and…

— Hugh Jackman

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues,…

— Joanne Woodward

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of…

— Wallace Shawn

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

— Barun Sobti

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore…

— David Suchet

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people…

— Sybil Thorndike

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones