Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay,… — Jaime Camil Copy Share Image
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk around with a bodyguard. My goal… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
Actors have a platform, especially during awards season. Which I respect. Everyone should speak out. Here's the thing: When it comes to… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.… — Andrea Barber Copy Share Image
Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I still think acting is something that you're born with and I think the greatest actors today, they don't need training, it… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
The movies I did before were movies with a lot of characters, a lot of locations, and low budgets, which meant that… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago,… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in… — Adrianne Palicki Copy Share Image
I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image