I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.' — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression. — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other? — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Everything that has come my way has moulded me as an actor and as a person. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like… — Ebon Moss-Bachrach Copy Share Image
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown — Richard Ouzounian Copy Share Image
“As with any artistic trend, Twee doesn’t become a movement until it gets its own household name. He arrived in the corduroy-draped,… — Marc Spitz Copy Share Image
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor.… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels,… — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.' — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity. — Goenawan Mohamad Copy Share Image
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be. — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff. — Gedde Watanabe Copy Share Image
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes. — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
