When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that. — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
I have to enjoy life - it is a privilege to be an actor and I love what I do, so I… — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage,… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
At the time of 'Mr. India,' I had just started and was a frustrated actor. I didn't know Calendar would take my… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
“His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I suppose after 'Four Weddings' I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined that was my career, but I never… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that… — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like… — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
“Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“To quote a Shakespearean cliché, repeated to death because it is so stubbornly true: “All the world’s a stage.” Work is theater.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter. — Eve Myles Copy Share Image
Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion. — Dianne Wiest Copy Share Image
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Actors and entertainers can become parliamentarians, so why should parliamentarians not become entertainers and actors? — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Being exposed to the diversity of music I was as a kid made me the actor I am today. As an actor,… — Will Chase Copy Share Image
You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do. — Thomas Gibson Copy Share Image
I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be… — Anupam Roy Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for musical theatre I wouldn't have met my wife, McFly wouldn't exist, none of it would have happened. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we… — Vittorio Gassman Copy Share Image
Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage… — Georgina Campbell Copy Share Image
If you chose to be an actor, if you take that baton and say 'OK, this is what I want to do… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45… — Redman Copy Share Image
Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
