I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct. — Charlie Weber Copy Share Image
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming… — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just… — Elizabeth Pena Copy Share Image
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Every time I prep a script, I hear it in my head, but I have to keep my mind open so that… — Andrea Romano Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I… — Rachel Keller Copy Share Image
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and… — Lynn Redgrave Copy Share Image
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway. — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience. — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Every actor who's been around long enough knows that when something bad happens in this business, it's always for a reason. Really,… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn't afford a… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff… — Chow Yun-Fat Copy Share Image
Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day.… — Clotilde Hesme Copy Share Image
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to… — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel.… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
For any actor, being part of a Mani Ratnam film is a great experience. I grew up watching his films. — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly… — Ben Falcone Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
