Stage Acting Quotes
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Stage Acting Quotes & Sayings
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I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.
— Kevin Richardson
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
— Miranda Richardson
It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.
— Charlotte Church
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.
— Martha Wainwright
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
— Karl Kraus
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
— Oona Chaplin
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
— Kerry Washington
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
— Jan Karon
I ain't acting when I'm on stage. That's why all the little love bugs who'll come and see me at Lovebox love me. They know it's the real me.
— Lil' Kim
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.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience.
— Antonello Fiore
I would say acting on stage is my first love.
— David Schwimmer
I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.
— Luise Rainer
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
— Ingrid Bergman
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
— Hattie Morahan
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.
— Tommy Wiseau
Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.
— Ralph Strangis
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
— Josh Radnor
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
— Nicholas Lea
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
— Ben Heppner
What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.
— Matthew Lewis
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
— Bertolt Brecht
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
— William Shakespeare
It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
— Domhnall Gleeson
All the world's a stage.
— William Shakespeare
Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
— Anne Rice
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
— Mary McCormack
I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!
— Greg Curtis
There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood.
— Ruth Ware
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
— Finn Wittrock
I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
— Cush Jumbo
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
— Karl Kraus
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
— Elizabeth McGovern
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
— Tommy Wiseau
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
— Jim Henson
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.
— Stephen Charnock
There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
— Connie Brockway
You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
— Warwick Davis
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
— Michelle Dockery
'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.
— Johnny Vegas
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
— Stella Adler
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
— James Lipton
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
— Armand Assante
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
— Jennifer Donnelly
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
— Vanessa Redgrave