Theatre Actors Quotes

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

One man in his time plays many parts.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.