Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home… — Justin Roiland Copy Share Image
I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television. — Michael Urie Copy Share Image
I'm not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety,… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get… — Bailee Madison Copy Share Image
I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
When people go to the theater, they don't want to think 'I know exactly what I'm gonna get,' and then they get… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people. — Emily Kinney Copy Share Image
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a… — Taylor Kitsch Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that… — Mark Indelicato Copy Share Image
I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
After graduating from University, I began directing in theatre too, and I've been directing, writing and acting ever since, which has allowed… — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without… — Rene Marie Copy Share Image
As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
They are just my parents. They never tried to make me an actor or anything. They were like how did the test… — Miles Robbins Copy Share Image
Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to… — James Burrows Copy Share Image
I think many young actors want to be daring. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences. — Karl Glusman Copy Share Image
I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things. — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given… — Julie Ann Emery Copy Share Image
I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the… — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see… — James Franco Copy Share Image
