When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor. — Mawra Hocane Copy Share Image
I don't have a preferred medium of work, but like all actors, I do like to move from one to the other… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't… — William Katt Copy Share Image
I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good… — Blair Brown Copy Share Image
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work. — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably… — Christopher Judge Copy Share Image
I find the mediums to be incredibly different. In theatre you're telling the same story eight times a week, and in TV… — Helene Yorke Copy Share Image
Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . .… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It was just like, "What am I going to do today, in L.A., as an actor? Well, I guess I could go… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work… — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“Actors are resourceful,” he’d instructed. “They hone their craft until they can take any situation and turn it away from themselves and… — Tracy Ewens Copy Share Image
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of… — Carl Weathers Copy Share Image
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel… — Daniel Sharman Copy Share Image
“The world of law was filled with the fallen, but theater wasn't. No one ever "fell back" onto theater. You had to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I'm going to try and focus on doing more theater things. I come from that background. I honestly feel so comfortable being… — Victor Rasuk Copy Share Image
It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for… — Xosha Roquemore Copy Share Image
I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some… — Chris Burke Copy Share Image
When we're not shooting 'Ballers,' we're always on the hunt for other work. As actors, we've never satisfied with just one thing. — Jazmyn Simon Copy Share Image