Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally. — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's… — Michael Schoeffling Copy Share Image
I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here.… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
I never really dreamed of becoming an actor because I've seen how hard it is within the deaf community. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Once cannot know if the film is going to be a hit or not so as an actor I choose films that… — Ayesha Takia Copy Share Image
Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears -… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be. — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The more the audience and the society trusts an actor, the more the responsibility increases for the actor. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult. — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I had lunch with Andrew Lloyd Webber at the end of 2011 because my musical 'Matilda' is in one of the theatres… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped… — Jacob Young Copy Share Image
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in… — Lillian Russell Copy Share Image
Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
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