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I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place. — Condola Rashad

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer. — Victor Garber

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of. — Freddy Rodriguez

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. — Jeffrey Wright

In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing. — Cindy Marcus

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. — Sam Rockwell

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's. — Hugh Jackman

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors. — Jeff Perry

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater. — John Wells

The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone ... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation. — Dean Cain

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

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. — Richard Foreman

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater. — John Lithgow

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like. — Jason Blum

Theater is like going to the gym for actors. — Julia Stiles

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role." — Denzel Washington

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor. — Zoe Lister-Jones

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

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that. — Charlie Day

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people. — Carrie Coon

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second. — Gloria Swanson

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

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity. — Michael Gambon

Don't wear green in your dressing room,' suggested Miss Spink.
'Or mention the Scottish play, added Miss Forcible. — Neil Gaiman

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors. — Danielle Brooks

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

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. — Diego Luna

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. — Marcello Mastroianni

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that. — Jeremy Irvine

Reading Dostoyevsky is like sitting in the front row of a theater, where the actors' spit lands on your face. — Charles Baxter

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater. — Augusto Boal

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual. — Pedro Almodovar

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

School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations. — Victor Miller

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions. — Katharine Cornell

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. — Shirley Knight

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

I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories. — Zeljko Ivanek

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

The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors — William Shakespeare

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of. — Maggie Siff

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being. — Elizabeth Strout

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

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.' — Megan Hilty

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors. — Charles Kimbrough