My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
Why do I choose horror? I think it feels the most like a release, in a sense. It can be therapeutic. Because… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year.… — Mark Margolis Copy Share Image
Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that… — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our… — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous,… — John Belushi Copy Share Image
It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be… — Betty White Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
It's great when it all comes together in a great musical like 'Sweeney Todd,' when Stephen Sondheim writes songs from heaven, the… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other… — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying.… — Emily Berrington Copy Share Image
As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and… — Fiona Gubelmann Copy Share Image
The actors bring their own stuff and thoughts, and most of the time, I don't want to know what they are. It… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
It was my freshman year. I was living across the hall from a girl named Kasey Klepper, whose brother, Jordan Klepper, used… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a… — Arsenio Hall Copy Share Image
For me, the audition process always starts with a few questions: Who am I? What am I trying to get across? Why… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
“Today's theater-goer must live in dread of walking into a theater and discovering that some classic work has been given a modernized,… — Reduced Shakespeare Company Copy Share Image
I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact… — Tom DiCillo Copy Share Image
A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it.… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
