For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
Growing up, I really wanted my own theater company, and I really wanted to do theater, so I was consciously pursuing it. — Sarah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?” — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I am very passionate about what I do; I give it 200 percent, and I don't think it will ever change. But… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this… — Jerry Ferrara Copy Share Image
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job,… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
My passion for others and my experience as an actor and citizen of the world has naturally shaped me into a social… — Sufe Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Maybe in another life I would have liked to have been a dancer. But I was a cheeky chappy who wanted to… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit… — Chad Lowe Copy Share Image
There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors… — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of… — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything. — Ana Layevska Copy Share Image
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no purpose for me ever to embarrass an actor by not getting the best possible performance. So, if it takes… — Andrea Romano Copy Share Image
Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100%… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has… — Kali Hawk Copy Share Image
The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor. — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
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