Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago. — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing… — Ella Purnell Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with… — Francois Cluzet Copy Share Image
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does… — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
I was a really shy, scared kid. I was really, really anxious to go on stage for the first five years that… — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about - as… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want… — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick,… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds. — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not… — Terence Lewis Copy Share Image
As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special. — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Actors are used to staring at the walls waiting for the phone to ring. It's not unchartered territory for us. — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors. — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors… — Kristen Hager Copy Share Image
