Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick,… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting… — Jason Winer Copy Share Image
It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it.… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I believe short films are more organic. It's almost like doing theatre. It just takes few takes. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't… — Max Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to… — Gail O'Grady Copy Share Image
'Sleepy Hollow' was really the first thing I'd done that gave me the opportunity in the modern age to build an authentic… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the… — Jasmine Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical… — James Dean Copy Share Image
My wife knows that I love her too much, so she is fine with the intimate scenes I do. She also knows… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star,… — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with… — David Oakes Copy Share Image
I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I share a very good rapport with Shah Rukh, so I was at ease working with him, and Imtiaz is a dream… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I am an actor who sings off screen for another actor. That is what playback singing is all about. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons… — Noel Gayler Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best… — Clare Eames Copy Share Image
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles. — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget. — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors. — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Things people say when a movie finishes in the theaters: 5% Awesome movie. 5% that was great acting. 90% I gotta pee! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be… — Jeremy Luke Copy Share Image
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