There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything! — Debra Stephenson Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions. — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I have a lot to prove to myself still as an actor. And I still… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something… — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a 125-page script for… — Julie Warner Copy Share Image
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first meeting with Farooque Shaikh. It was in 1975. I had just returned from New York after completing… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Even to ensure you are in the running to be a good actor takes a lot of effort. — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet. — Alley Mills Copy Share Image
I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor. — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine. — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
We are all actors, playing different characters based on our scenarios — Alex Fountain Copy Share Image
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