In this business you need enthusiasm. I don't have enthusiasm for acting anymore. Acting is not the beginning and end of everything. — James Cagney Copy Share Image
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
I think it's really important when you are an actor with an identity that gets discussed a lot, or rather is in… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's… — Colin Ford Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 13 and telling people I wanted to be an actor, and being met with, 'Have fun waiting… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
For the longest time, I gave myself value as a human because of my work. So when I saw it potentially ending,… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
I do admire actors who manage to lose huge amounts of weight for roles: you have to have astonishing discipline to do… — Anna Madeley Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
On paper, actors are the dumbest group of individuals essentially out there. Most of us have not gone to college. However, we… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you… — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
I've been programmed to be an actor. So when I figured out I wanted to be a rock star or a musician,… — Jesse Rutherford Copy Share Image
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it,… — Thomas Sangster Copy Share Image
The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
After 'Amen' people started recognising me. It made me think that acting is better than direction. — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's… — Sian Clifford Copy Share Image
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition. — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
While I have got to work with someone as experienced as Ajay Devgn sir in my first film, it is exciting to… — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
I started in theatre; the first bit of drama I did was amateur dramatics, up until I was 19. Then the TV… — Michael Socha Copy Share Image
I perform a role as per the requirements of the script. When it comes to work, I don't have any personal choice… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there? — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
