For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone… — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
If you're known as a dramatic actor it helps you a lot. Even though to me it's simpler, it leaves a deeper… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to continue work as an actor in Hollywood. So being in a film with Lady Gaga is something I'm… — Shangela Copy Share Image
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses,… — Sendhil Ramamurthy Copy Share Image
You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor?… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual.… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you… — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person. — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
I've worked with a few coaches, and I did theater camp when I was younger, and I think what was good was… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan.… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about… — Andrew Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you'e working with great actors, your performance also becomes better because you have such great energy in front of you. — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
If you give the actors the characters that they are comfortable with, they've no issues with what another actor is doing. — Luv Ranjan Copy Share Image
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre,… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them. — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers. — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
Certain drama is acceptable for certain age groups. If you're an adult, act as such and stop crying over spilled milk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately. — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict… — Ben Foster Copy Share Image
Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul. — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
