For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
It's harder for someone like a singer to prove they can be an actor because people immediately want to say, 'Oh, he's… — Ronan Keating Copy Share Image
It was in college that I learned the basics of theater, the entertainment industry, and various mediums. — Jamie Brewer Copy Share Image
You try to find the romance in the struggle, or at least that's what you keep telling yourself. But you talk to… — Nick Gehlfuss Copy Share Image
Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have… — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything… — Werner Klemperer Copy Share Image
I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting. — Tiffani Thiessen Copy Share Image
I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to… — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
There are days when you are busy even without having work as you are going for auditions. So you are not acting… — Anupriya Goenka Copy Share Image
Auditions are already the worst thing in the world. They're so nerve-racking. It's so unfair to ask someone to show you all… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort… — Nolan Gerard Funk Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot.… — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified.… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of musical theatre, but I equate 'Mr. Cinders' a lot with why I became an actor. — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp will always be my crush. Besides the fact that he's an amazing actor and has never played the same character… — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a… — Jeffrey Combs Copy Share Image
I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
