I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like,… — Common Copy Share Image
I forget who said it, but someone said, your job as an actor is to communicate the most honest version of this… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
When I went to college I majored in theater with an emphasis on acting. I realized kind of quickly after college you… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you go into a waiting room, and the audition room is right there, and the walls are extremely thin. And you… — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to… — Sonu Sood Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a… — John Requa Copy Share Image
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been hit by a car every night, that's how I feel emotionally after The Race show. But it… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the… — Chris Coppernoll Copy Share Image
Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or… — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I… — Cedric Yarbrough Copy Share Image
