You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody… — Grace Park Copy Share Image
Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you.… — Cody Horn Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
“Some people like drama so much that they have to start inventing things because real life isn't interesting enough for them.” — Lisa Ballantyne Copy Share Image
If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot… — Stephen Spinella Copy Share Image
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the… — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
That's the really fun thing about writing for series versus just doing a pilot or even doing a feature: you get to… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
Cinema is as credible as TV, as credible a projector, as credible as a streaming platform or for that matter even a… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Being trained is fine if you feel that it helps you, but you can be the greatest trained actor in the world,… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television. — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
Thinks it is strange that the people who complain about drama and the need for others to grow up are usually the… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Actors are used to staring at the walls waiting for the phone to ring. It's not unchartered territory for us. — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors… — Kristen Hager Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors. — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
The actors work out how to create the show with me during the rehearsals. They owe it to themselves and each other… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on… — Claes Bang Copy Share Image
I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre… — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Being an actor, your focus is just on your craft and how to make it better, but production is a much bigger… — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not… — Jihae Copy Share Image
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not… — Terence Lewis Copy Share Image
As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special. — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
