I am a physical retailer by trade - if your shop is burgled you don't immediately think, 'Is it North Korea? Is… — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the… — Jazmyn Simon Copy Share Image
What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I'm in this business… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
'The Walking Dead' was my favorite show before I even auditioned for it. That's every actor's dream, to be on a show… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like,… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't.… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges.… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said,… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant… — Judith Hoag Copy Share Image
I've been in the industry long enough now - I've been a working actor since 2002. I'm very aware that at some… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Acting is something where you have to completely remove yourself. So, do I find acting easy? Absolutely no! Do I want to… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it… — Declan Lowney Copy Share Image
The reason why I became an actor was for the community, now I realize. It's the people that you're with, and the… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Salman is a paradox. He has this image of a moody actor who turns up late for shoots or doesn't turn up… — Asin Copy Share Image
I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage… — Lauren Lapkus Copy Share Image
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![“With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.” quote by Jim Jefferies](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e92/jim-jefferies-8092_acting_with-acting-it-auditioning-is-very-frust_2628940.jpg)
