I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
I really respect versatile actors, so I'd really like to throw myself in the deep end. — Samara Weaving Copy Share Image
Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' — Efrem Zimbalist, Jr Copy Share Image
I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me… — Niall Matter Copy Share Image
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage. — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
I was a little disappointed with the box-office performance of 'Dharala Prabhu,' because the theatres were shut down just three days after… — Vivek Copy Share Image
I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah!… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ...… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
As an actor, I feel like I'm always very contained and everything is very internal. — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. — Thomas Heywood Copy Share Image
Theatre has always been at the back of my mind but somehow I never got around to doing it. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus. — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
VThat's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles. — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19. — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
