The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
No, I don't get obsessed with acting. Because in the past when I have got obsessed about it, it really got in… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
For me, once you do a job as an actor then it's the director, producer and editor's job to decide what is… — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I just want to do musicals. it's hard enough just to do musicals. No matter how hard I try, I think it's… — Cheon Eunbi Copy Share Image
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning… — Rufus Sewell 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
A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)… — Tadeusz Kantor Copy Share Image
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
“Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End… — Barbara Isenberg Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project,… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the… — Michael York Copy Share Image
With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors.… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I was just 19 years old when I did my first film and had no plan to act, or to become an… — Prateik Babbar Copy Share Image
“ Gawd , this guy was hawt . Super hawt. He was giving off heat. Josh was getting hard just looking at… — Helen Louise Caroll Copy Share Image
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not.… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
