There was a time when one couldn't dream of being an actor if they weren't well-connected or they weren't a star kid. — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of films being made but I feel watching a film in a theatre is quite a family experience… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated. — Sonny Chiba Copy Share Image
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an actor who was able to touch people with what I offered to the world. That… — Melanie Nicholls-King Copy Share Image
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and… — Carly Schroeder Copy Share Image
I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Once I won the roles in 'Spender' and 'First Knight' it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads… — Ralph Ineson Copy Share Image
I think it's important for a filmmaker to know his actors, because you have to work so closely together and you have… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough… — Brooke Langton Copy Share Image
That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with Broadway cast recordings, and I would totally mimic and memorize every little choice that these… — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I would love to write something that I'm not in and just be in a rehearsal room as a writer. But I… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
When I used to be on stage, I used to be out of breath; I couldn't walk that far. Now, I got… — Biz Markie Copy Share Image
When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.' — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time… — Richard Widmark Copy Share Image
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. — Christy Mathewson Copy Share Image
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre. — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors. — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
