From being a silent person, I started going on stage and performing. It gave me confidence and I started liking it. When… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The most challenging part of being an actor is that every time you play a character, you have to start from ground… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a ballet class which lasted no time at all - I couldn't really dance. So they sent… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz'… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Affect detection. First, a person must detect a change in the emotional disposition of someone else. In the behavioral sciences, “affect” means… — John Medina Copy Share Image
And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But in Hollywood especially, I think the most exciting thing for me is to finally see that LGBTQ parts are being played… — Scott Evans Copy Share Image
I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what… — Chris Geere Copy Share Image
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me. — David Jason Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould. — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The… — Charlie Barnett Copy Share Image
Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi Copy Share Image
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold… — Dick Powell Copy Share Image
You'd think people would regard you as an actor and you could play anything. But with TV they regard you almost as… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I… — Melina Matsoukas Copy Share Image
Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater. — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time… — Daisy May Cooper Copy Share Image
