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What I found out about stage is that there is such a camaraderie between the actors. — Angela Watson

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage. — Morgan Freeman

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, 'No, I'm an actor of the stage.' — Kirk Douglas

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor. — Jeremy Piven

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. — Charlie Chaplin

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. — Thomas Heywood

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can! — Avijeet Das

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. — Colin Wilson

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on ... mass murderers ... — George Clooney

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

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors. — Margaret Rutherford

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right. — Frank Rich

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do. — Edith Evans

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real. — Shirley Maclaine

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. — Fernando Pessoa

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

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do. — Jeremy Piven

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship. — Vanessa Redgrave

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can. — Kate Smith

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. — Martin Freeman

They are like actors playing a role, sometimes enjoying their role on stage, but usually relieved to leave it — Kelley Armstrong

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life. — Marion Cotillard

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage. — Anurag Kashyap

Many people are actors on a stage of their own illusions. — Steven Redhead

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. — Quentin Crisp

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage. — Ian McKellen

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. — William Shakespeare

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. — Jerry Weintraub

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. — Patrick Huard

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight — Joshua Teya

The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do. — Jeremy Piven

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination? — Joyce Cary

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you. — Lauren Bacall

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. — Estelle Parsons

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool. — M. Night Shyamalan

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. — Anne Rice

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ... — Alec-Tweedie

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good. — Evan Esar

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. — Ian McKellen

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 world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements. — Clemens Winkler

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon. — Hildegard Knef

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life. — Anthony Liccione

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work. — Oscar Isaac

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way. — Charles Saatchi