When I was a very young actor, I made a wise move. I invested in the stock market. — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death. — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department,… — David Selby Copy Share Image
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more… — Beatrice Lillie Copy Share Image
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Once you are on the set as an actor, you are detached for three or six months. — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role. — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
“You’ve been in Hollywood long enough to know that all the real acting happens offscreen.” — Rachel Shukert Copy Share Image
I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move. — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with Doon's talented, young actors and also get to learn from them. — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same. — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really. — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason. — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends that are actors, and I'm blessed to even have a job. — Josh Segarra Copy Share Image
