You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because… — Clifton Collins, Jr Copy Share Image
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain. — Asrani Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so… — Carrie Brownstein 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
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
I remember a drama class that I took where they were like, 'Okay, so the first thing you do is think about… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap'… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing… — Iain De Caestecker Copy Share Image
I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help… — Sharni Vinson Copy Share Image
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've have done really awful films. It's just that my films haven't clicked at the box-office which doesn't… — Dino Morea Copy Share Image
Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you… — Linden Ashby Copy Share Image
One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
There are some actors who will come in firing and they just want to go for it. But they don't want to… — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould. — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me. — David Jason Copy Share Image
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The… — Charlie Barnett Copy Share Image
You'd think people would regard you as an actor and you could play anything. But with TV they regard you almost as… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
The most challenging part of being an actor is that every time you play a character, you have to start from ground… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning,… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz'… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
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