I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your… — Stephen Root Copy Share Image
You put so much of yourself out there as an actor. You show the many facets of who you are when you're… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I started working as a kid doing dubbing, and then I started doing television when I was 11 or 12, and then… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
I don't really hang out with actors. I don't really like talking about it in my free time. I like talking about… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood… — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble.… — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Auditioning is a skill. There are actors who are not very talented but know how to audition and know how to be… — Noah Galvin Copy Share Image
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor,… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm… — Marques Houston Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of precocious, but my journey sort of solidified when I was in college and majored in theater. That's… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story.… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list.… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
In the scenes I try to be a giver as much as possible, giving the other actor something to work with. When… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him… — Mason Cook Copy Share Image
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
