It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's… — Sam J. Jones Copy Share Image
I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And… — Keiko Agena Copy Share Image
The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are… — Rory McCann Copy Share Image
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were… — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
It's my goal to help actors achieve their best work, and I think I speak the same language as actors, so I… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something… — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such… — Parineeti Chopra Copy Share Image
Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in.… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
As an actor, there are a lot of personas and personalities that you carry. Whatever you wear, you adapt to it, and… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
