Stage Actors Quotes - Page 2

• A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

  William Shatner

  Performing, Audience, Actors

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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• I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

  Ed O'Neill

  Ghouls, Ideas, Guy

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• I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

  Jeremy Piven

  Actors, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

  Steve Carell

  Done, Television, Broadway

  "Steve Carell Interview CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

  Erland Josephson

  Acting, Lamps, Movement

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• When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

  William H. Macy

  Summer, New York, Car

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• I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

  Kelly Bishop

  Fun, Eight, People

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• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  John Michael Higgins

  Army, Navy, Months

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Vision, Actors, Stage

  "'80s actor known as Booger still busy in the biz" by Serena Kappes, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2002.

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• Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

  David McCullough

  War, Character, Men

  Interview, www.bookreporter.com. June 2005.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Class, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

  Alan Tudyk

  Play, Acting, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

  Ian Mckellen

  Oscars, Walks, Know How

  2002 In the Observer,17 Feb.

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• My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.

  Anthony Heald

  Attitude, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

  Alan Tudyk

  Play, Tools, Given

  "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Games, Eight

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