I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator. — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's… — Melanie Scrofano Copy Share Image
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's… — Amy Smart Copy Share Image
We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A job doesn't lead to another job. Yes, people are more aware of you, but it's kind of this clean slate every… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
I was the star of one of the school plays when I was in Year 10. It was 'Bugsy Malone.' There is… — Finn Cole Copy Share Image
It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career. — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
Getting to perform my first Broadway tour in my hometown in the first three weeks of my contract has been so special. — Myha'la Copy Share Image
If one of my friends said they'd written a little role for me in a sitcom, I'd definitely do it and I'd… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
It's even hard for me to even watch myself, but that's the case with most actors. It's weird if an actor is… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
“I have never thought of myself as an actor, thought I play about 500 different characters in the show. Actors play someone… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I literally came to L.A. like every actor does from this little town with this big dream, and I'm living in it… — Tracy Spiridakos Copy Share Image
I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen. — Tom Scharpling Copy Share Image
I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image