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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

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. — Judd Nelson

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

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. — Arthur Smith

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts. — Jan Karon

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

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

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

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. — Ben Kingsley

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

We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience. — Antonello Fiore

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting. — Denis Lavant

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 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

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? — Jennifer Donnelly

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

I would say acting on stage is my first love. — David Schwimmer

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

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird. — Celia Imrie

I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.' — Sascha Radetsky

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. — Marlon Brando

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

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. — Jim Henson

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. — Mary McCormack

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people. — Kumail Nanjiani

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 love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. — Kabir Bedi

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

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

What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page. — Fierce Dolan

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