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The foundation for film acting is stage acting. -- James Lipton
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting. -- Denis Lavant
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow. -- Charles Durning
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. -- Michael Caine
Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good! -- Erland Josephson
I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart. -- Callan McAuliffe
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing. -- Brian Blessed
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. -- Fred Melamed
Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go. -- Ralph Strangis
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own -- Eli Wallach
I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me. -- Chris Tucker
Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. -- Jason Fuchs
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. -- Eli Wallach
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing. -- Mara Wilson
I feel like my home is stage acting. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I would say acting on stage is my first love. -- David Schwimmer
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird. -- Celia Imrie
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. -- Arthur Smith
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. -- Judd Nelson
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. -- Mary McCormack
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. -- Jim Henson
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. -- Ben Kingsley
On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people. -- Kumail Nanjiani
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. -- Kabir Bedi
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities. -- Ben Heppner
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. -- Hattie Morahan
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. -- Tommy Wiseau
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera. -- Kerry Washington
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. -- Miranda Richardson
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun. -- Josh Radnor
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. -- Tommy Wiseau
It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage. -- Charlotte Church
What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition. -- Matthew Lewis
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage. -- Adam Driver
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. -- Martha Wainwright
When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself. -- Girl Talk
You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera. -- Warwick Davis
I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early. -- Cynthia Nixon
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. -- Ingrid Bergman
Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me. -- Johnny Vegas
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera. -- Nicholas Lea
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it. -- Finn Wittrock
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. -- Michelle Dockery
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Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite. -- Stephen Charnock

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