Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
A lot of kids think they can just go to Hollywood and become an actor or actress. It's not that easy. There… — Michael Clarke Duncan Copy Share Image
The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I've had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
There are some actors who will come in firing and they just want to go for it. But they don't want to… — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The… — Charlie Barnett Copy Share Image
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold… — Dick Powell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don't do that, it makes… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been… — James Denton Copy Share Image
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals… — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Many people say that theatre has no money, but it has been the stepping stone for the best film actors of our… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
