Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated. — Andrea Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background. — Scarlett Bordeaux Copy Share Image
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and… — Sia Copy Share Image
People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an honor. — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em,… — Doc Watson Copy Share Image
My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“Sometimes instead of creating a scene it’s better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
With most good scripts and good shows, they expect the actor to bring some of their ideas to the backstory of the… — Mark Consuelos Copy Share Image
I still think acting is something that you're born with and I think the greatest actors today, they don't need training, it… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky. — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
As actors, I really feel that unless you don't believe in the part, you won't be able to portray it on screen. — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
Having experience in film and television both, I feel both are equally powerful and satisfying for an actor. — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding, — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever… — Christopher Egan Copy Share Image
Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
“To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it. — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
