1.
This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.
Clark Gable
2.
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.
Ian Mckellen
3.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis
4.
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.
Steve Carell
5.
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
6.
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.
Erland Josephson
7.
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.
Aaron Tveit
8.
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
9.
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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
10.
I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
Alan Tudyk
11.
Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
George Clooney
12.
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
William Shatner
13.
I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
Kevin Whately
14.
I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.
Clarke Peters
16.
My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.
Curtis Armstrong
18.
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.
Jeremy Piven
19.
The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
Oliver Platt