Quotes About Actor

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another , and you get to really be so connected with it.

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

At some point, when I was 14 or 15, the idea crossed my mind to become an actor... I hadn't been to the theater much... When I grew up, we had one TV channel, which was sufficient.

I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to the theatre.

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

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.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

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.

I started out as a dancer and an actor, and I need to remind myself that I can still do theatre.

I ventured into cinema after theatre because I didn't want to confine myself to just one auditorium. I wanted the whole world to talk about me.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.