When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theater and the theater needs actors who will bring the truth of the human soul to the stage. The theater may now be the only place in society where people can go to hear the truth.

— Melissa Bruder

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Other, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

— Thomas Bernhard

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

— Angie-Marie Delsante

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

— George Burns

Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment.

— Arthur Gingold

You are the actor. Your body brings in something, call it presence, and it happens by degrees. Arms, chest, haunches and thighs, calves and feet. The body, firing synapses, in between and in the gray matter. On and off. The billions of cells, the body mechanisms, the busy regulating, the adjusting, the retinas contracting and expanding, body secreting, beating, moving, breathing and pulsing. Your being registers here. Swallow. Inhale. Open mouth to press air out to touch the flesh in the throat to make sound. You are the actor. A thing of flesh and feeling. Perfect because you aren't.

— Richard Maxwell

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all history is your classroom.

— Stella Adler

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

— William T. Wylie

You face an audience and prepare to speak. Fear will be there, if you're alive. There is, of course, no shortage of feeling up there. It is an extreme act, unusual, testing you in unparalleled ways. It speaks to the core of who you are, and why you do what you do. These challenges, they exist in life and become acute on stage.

— Richard Maxwell

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

— Tapan Ghosh