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Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. -- Robert Gottlieb
Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors. -- Margaret Rutherford
The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover. -- Christine Lahti
There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now. -- Matthew Morrison
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. -- Ian Mckellen
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
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
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
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
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
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film. -- Tracy Letts
In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film. -- Sam Claflin
In live stage, the actor lives. -- Peter Boyle
I prefer stage work, as an actor. -- Robert Sean Leonard
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago. -- Jeremy Piven
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. -- Henry David Thoreau
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing. -- William Shatner
The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. -- Charlie Chaplin
I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums. -- Andy Serkis
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. -- Ethel Barrymore
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. -- Colin Wilson
When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live. -- Jaime Camil
I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can. -- Kate Smith
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. -- Talcott Parsons
I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage. -- Anurag Kashyap
I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser. -- Rich Sommer
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you. -- Lauren Bacall
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. -- Fernando Pessoa
The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. -- Estelle
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. -- Thomas Heywood
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. -- Martin Freeman
Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. -- Anne Rice
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way. -- Charles Saatchi
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. -- Paul Theroux
Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers... -- George Clooney
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements. -- Clemens Winkler
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing. -- Edward Herrmann
There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work. -- Oscar Isaac
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
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life. -- Marion Cotillard
I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way. -- Hugh Jackman
When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance,they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called,use the difficulty.How can you use the difficultyin your life? -- Gina Greenlee
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. -- Clint Eastwood

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