Quotes About Acting

I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them - I did everything else: everything but act.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

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

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

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

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

I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

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.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting in its true sense.