Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
I was nine when I started getting laughs in a school comedy sketch one day, and acting became all I wanted to… — Mathew Horne Copy Share Image
You create this human being, and then you are that human being for the next six months. It's amazing. I think that's… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend… — David Yates Copy Share Image
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
I was on the lookout for something different, as I was exhausted with the fiction space. When I was asked to host… — Ashish Sharma Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I don't call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about,… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it… — Richard Kind Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people. — Kubra Sait Copy Share Image
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community. — Himesh Patel Copy Share Image
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't… — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
