Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything… — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing.… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what… — Chris Geere Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
When you become an actor, you never, ever imagine you're going to be working on one role for a decade, and while… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of… — Shannon Woodward Copy Share Image
The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
I do a lot of motivational speaking for young performers and kids who really want to get into acting and performing. I… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t… — Reshma Shetty Copy Share Image
Every actor prepares a scene in their own way. For me, it's about understanding the scenario, the room I'm going to be… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
I want to continue to grow in every way possible, as an actor, a woman, just as a human being in general.… — Miranda Rae Mayo Copy Share Image
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been… — James Denton Copy Share Image
We did a musical called 'The Wind in the Willows Christmas' in Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. I played… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don't do that, it makes… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
For my first Hollywood film, I really didn't want to be doing a film where I'm looking like a stooge with fake… — Nathan Phillips Copy Share Image
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever. — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
My PAST is just a MEMORY , my FUTURE will be a HISTORY . I'm the DIRECTOR and the ACTOR in my… — Baby_anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There was a lot I wanted to do. I wasn't an actress out there trying to be an actress. I was really… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008. — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
“My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I’m an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful. — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea… — Cody Horn Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I was very young when I began acting and I really got by on enthusiasm and love of the profession. — Zhao Wei Copy Share Image
I started my acting career in 1974 through theatre and I was also a student of the National School of Drama. — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
