Theater Acting Quotes
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
— Ted Shackelford
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
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 writersthey're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
— Michael Caine
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
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 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
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
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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