The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles. — Richard Wilson Copy Share Image
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist. — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting. — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
I’ve broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music.… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor… — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
There's this biological association, when you do this movement, these things happen, and you're basically trying to rewire this 4-billion-year-old reflexive circuitry,… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting. — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends. — Luke Treadaway Copy Share Image
Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.' — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it. — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image