What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater… — Oscar Torre Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
I had done some community theater plays and I just had so much fun doing it. I was a really shy kid… — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction.… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show. — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do. — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing. — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a… — Joe Dinicol Copy Share Image
Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for… — Mario Lopez Copy Share Image
As an actor, I want to be in works that reflect black presence in the U.K. throughout the nation's history. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
In drama we are taught to view both sides equally. With empathy. That's how you play 'Richard the Third.' By walking in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I have been rather selective, doing not more than two or thee films a year, so that leaves me with plenty of… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't… — Daisy Shah Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be in musical theater all the way, from beginning to end, and then it started not… — Briga Heelan Copy Share Image
I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
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