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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. — Liev Schreiber

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit. — Stella Adler

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television. — Michelle Dockery

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. — Alan Rickman

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. — Kelsey Chow

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. — Christopher Eccleston

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. — Steve Buscemi

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience. — Rhys Ifans

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. — Keeley Hawes

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work. — Brooke Elliott

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. — Julie Walters

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS. — Tony Kushner

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. — Uta Hagen

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared. — Bertie Carvel

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. — Sarah Snook

Acting is in everything but the words. — Stella Adler

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. — Stella Adler

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. — John Boyega

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug. — Christina Hendricks

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you. — Stella Adler

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art. — Konstantin Stanislavski

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin. — Katharine Hepburn

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company. — Tony Randall

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor. — Skylar Astin

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler

All the world's a stage. — William Shakespeare

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. — Len Cariou

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. — Stella Adler

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique. — John Garfield

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice. — Michael Shurtleff

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. — Anthony Hopkins

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good. — Stella Adler

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

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. — Ewan McGregor

You'll never really be great unless you aim high. — Stella Adler

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors. — James Denton

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. — Arthur Lowe

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

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me. — Kate Bosworth

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. — Oscar Wilde

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable. — Stella Adler

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days. — Kapil Sharma