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Actors are the only honest hypocrites. — William Hazlitt

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier. — Tony Randall

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!" — James Hetfield

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. — Thomas Heywood

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there. — Raza Jaffrey

All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around. — Michael Gambon

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre. — Renee O'Connor

There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. — Harry Lloyd

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. — Morena Baccarin

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. — Greta Scacchi

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors. — Edward Gordon Craig

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. — Kevin Spacey

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors. — Max Von Sydow

I have a theory ... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors. — Shaun Sipos

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

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

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent. — Clotilde Hesme

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

It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play. — Lillete Dubey

An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills. — Mark Leslie

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible. — Eleanora Duse

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out. — Patsy Rodenburg

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham. — Oscar Wilde

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial. — Rob Urbinati

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

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential. — Robert Morley

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

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

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. — Miguel De Cervantes

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. — Sophocles

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time. — Robert Emms

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

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way. — Charles Saatchi

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. — Kenneth Haigh

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays. — Stella Adler

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it. — Kevin Whately

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast. — John Gielgud

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that. — Helen Mirren

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre. — Brenda Blethyn

The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations. — Marcel Proust

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. — Boris Spassky

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre. — Alexa Vega

We're actors - we're the opposite of people! — Tom Stoppard