I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes… — Thalia Copy Share Image
I want to do comedy films, serious films - I admire the actors who fly under the radar but get loads done,… — Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life. — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial,… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making… — Nivin Pauly Copy Share Image
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make it a little bit more personal this time. All my shows are hodge-podges, and this one is no… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
An actor feels the dilemma of being a human being and through his art tries to explain the condition of man. — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
I am honored to receive a Satellite award from IPA for best actor in a dramatic series. To have BB win for… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know? — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut,… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that,… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can… — Michael Welch Copy Share Image
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult… — Richard Widmark Copy Share Image
No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price… — Huma Qureshi Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a dilemma, being an actor. I know that. But otherwise, I'm a relatively private person. I feel like… — Josephine Langford Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about TV is that when you discover certain strengths in an actor, you can then begin to… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without… — Jim White Copy Share Image
A stage play is beautiful only when it is seen as a stage play, just like you cannot get the same effect… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented. — Deborah Ann Woll Copy Share Image
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