To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Acting was in my mind since I was 10 years old. It's just that for a long time it was a hidden ambition. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and… — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
Ideally, for me, the power of appreciation lies in getting better roles and being given more responsibility as an actor. — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice. — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since… — Anna Popplewell Copy Share Image
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an… — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan. — John Carney Copy Share Image
Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is… — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices. — Sarah Rafferty Copy Share Image
Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore. — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
“In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you’re playing opposite, don’t skip between the eyes or you will just… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
I suppose that I'm excited by exciting theater. It takes a risk to show us the world in a new way. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others. — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
