Theatre Actors Quotes - Page 2

• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Tim Robbins

  Acting, Actors, Boring

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• Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

  Sanford Meisner

  Acting, Circumstances, Imaginary

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• I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Theatre, Actors, Middle

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• I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

  Robert Englund

  Careers, Theatre, Actors

  Source: houseofgeekery.com

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• I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

  Shaun Sipos

  Theatre, Actors, Auditions

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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• I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  Willem Dafoe

  New York, Thinking, Healthy

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Franco Nero

  Theatre, Actors

  "Franco Nero: No escaping Django". Interview with Phelim O'Neil, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

  Peter Brook

  Real, Oddities, Hands

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

  Catherine Deneuve

  Theatre, Different, Actors

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• I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

  Michael Gambon

  Taken, Years, Theatre

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

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• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  Frances McDormand

  Scary, Theatre, Actors

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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