Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To me, the stage is like the free zone. That's what makes it exhilarating. For whatever reason, there's this weird little square… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short. — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap'… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
When you become an actor, you never, ever imagine you're going to be working on one role for a decade, and while… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
So the question never comes up. I love to work with actors who I feel really confident in knowing what I'm going… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
“We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn’t as large as yours. And our performances,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
PRETTY SOON, I GET TO SEE MICHAEL AT DRAMA CLASS-UH OH(: JUST KIDDING PEOPLE. I WILL BE JUST FINE(: — Clare Carrillo Copy Share Image
I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage. — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurrence… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think… — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.' — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years. — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
