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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. — Ted Shackelford

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play. — Anne Rice

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York. — Christopher Denham

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. — Robert Gossett

Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred — Ken Ludwig

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. — Emma Stone

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor. — Carl Weathers

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds. — Adam Baldwin

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable. — Nick Offerman

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way. — Christian Borle

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting. — Gene Simmons

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine. — Liana Liberato

That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser — Michael Caine

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. — Adam Driver

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater. — Marisa Tomei

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays. — Todd Haynes

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. — Sarah Gavron

Physicality is the basis of performance. — David Petersen

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. — Casey Kasem

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better. — Shanola Hampton

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. — James Lipton

The text is your greatest enemy. — Sanford Meisner

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy. — Viola Spolin

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it. — Augusto Boal

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater. — Hill Harper

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. — W.S. Gilbert

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. — Tommy Chong

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission. — Mason Cooley

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. — Gaspard Ulliel

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it. — Laurie Metcalf

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

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. — Olivia Wilde

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. — Alfred Molina

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater. — Jim Parsons

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

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night. — Katharine Hepburn

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny. — Sufe Bradshaw

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

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits. — Vincent H. O'Neil

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. — Aidan Turner

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement. — Konstantin Stanislavski

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater. — Carter Jenkins

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

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. — Michael Moriarty

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible. — Jesse L. Martin

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. — James Broughton

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater. — Alicia Keys

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts. — Loni Anderson

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play. — Miranda Cosgrove

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company. — Tom Cullen

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A. — Ashley Bell

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights. — Eva Mendes

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