Oscar Wilde Quotes

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.