I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus. — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays. — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
If people are going to spend a night out at the theatre, they don't just want 'good' - we can watch box… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played… — Alla Nazimova Copy Share Image
I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
As a director, I have to do everything. As an actor, I'm just worried about one role, that's it. As a director,… — Tasha Smith Copy Share Image
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to… — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring… — Rupert Penry-Jones Copy Share Image
I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If one of my friends said they'd written a little role for me in a sitcom, I'd definitely do it and I'd… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career. — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
We were running around in the woods telling stories and putting on costumes. We're terrible actors, but we acted in everything that… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now. — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I have never thought of myself as an actor, thought I play about 500 different characters in the show. Actors play someone… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's… — Amy Smart Copy Share Image
I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image