My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think as an actor it's always a challenge to experiment and play something that you're not. What's the point if I… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
You have to be super close to yourself, and comfortable with it being revealed, in order to be a good actor. — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If… — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment,… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Making 'The Invitation' and waiting to make it on my terms and getting final cut and doing it the way I needed… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Though I used to do a lot of stage shows in my childhood and college, but never thought that it would turn… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
An actor is all I ever really wanted to be. But if I couldn't do that anymore... I'd open a book store. — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't… — Merrie Spaeth Copy Share Image
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.' — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I… — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think I always found a lot of freedom getting to be other people. I think a lot of actors would say… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Some actors don a woman's role briefly during the course of a film but they make it a point to appear as… — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I accepted that it would be very difficult to become an actor and it's even tougher once you become an actor. — Nidhhi Agerwal Copy Share Image
I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like… — Scott Baio Copy Share Image
As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors.… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Marathi film producers conveniently blame the audience. If there are 70-odd flops in a year, there are a few that are hit… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate… — Laura Haddock Copy Share Image
