Stage Actors Quotations

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

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

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.

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.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

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.

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

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

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

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

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

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.

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.

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