I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful. — John Woo Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
I had these grand notions that I wanted to go off and be an actor... I was always roping my friends into… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug. — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
It is true that social media, nowadays, is important, but I don't understand everyone needing to know everything about an artist or… — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions,… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Hits, flops, and everything in between - I got to do a lot of different things as an actor, had a lot… — Anita Hassanandani Reddy Copy Share Image
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed being in the community of theater makers at university. So I started doing some performance as well and eventually,… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor. — Anthony LaPaglia Copy Share Image
I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting. — Disha Patani Copy Share Image
In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all. — John Boyega Copy Share Image
One of the great books I read was by Sanford Meissner on acting. I found that really helpful for me as an… — Ananya Panday Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy. — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting… — Josh Bowman Copy Share Image
The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes you have to reason with yourself and say, "This is just TV" or "This is just a movie,"… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard. — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
As an actor, I was often shielded from the big-picture decisions. But as a producer, I experience all the conversations where there's… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
First and foremost, at drama school it gets drilled into you that you say yes to anything. If they say, can you… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
Acting while I'm singing just kind of happened because I'm a hambone at heart, I guess. And I'm a Gemini - I've… — Diana DeGarmo Copy Share Image
