Acting is too often looked upon as a 'gifted art.' This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it. — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it. — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up,… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than an anxiety-filled, fearful actor who just needs that next job, because they're not gonna get that next job.… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it.… — Alexander Hanson Copy Share Image
I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
I wound up going to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, which was a really life-changing experience that's still… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the… — Michael Kelly Copy Share Image
In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
All the characters I've played so far mean a lot to me, but I think Young-hee of After My Death' was a… — Jeon Yeo-been Copy Share Image
That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you. — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater. — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
As an actor I have a cushy position because everything gets set up for me. I am only needed to learn my… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker.… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've become a better actor or a more sensitive one. But I've learnt what not to do. — Prabhu Deva Copy Share Image
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted. — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
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Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
There's a tendency as an actor to be wrapped up in your insecurities, and I don't know if I have that any… — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly. — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream… — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job. — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
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