“227 Lears... 227 performances of King Lear and I can't remember the first line.”
Albert Finney - Sir

“- Zidler: Remember: a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.”
Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”
Diego Luna

“I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.”
Aaron Douglas Trimble

“- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Why would you possibly want to be in a play when you could be in a film?
- Greta Schroeder: An audience gives me life. This... thing only takes it from me.”
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Catherine McCormack - Greta Schröder