Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want… — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If the role is right and it's another situation of having a benevolent genius at the head of it, someone who likes… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you… — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world's sadness with actors and props and sets - it seems like a kind… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
If I ran into myself maybe seven years ago and told myself that I was gonna be an actor, that I'd be… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
I've been having these dinner parties at my house in L.A. for years that turn into charades parties. I'm so good at… — Wilson Bethel Copy Share Image
I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick,… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds. — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with… — Francois Cluzet Copy Share Image
I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does… — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
Whatever the actor does on stage they have to be happy with it, because they are the ones doing it. — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor,… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly. — India Eisley Copy Share Image
I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. — David McCallum Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they… — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
In terms of TV shows, if you're a public figure, we've all been asked to do some sort of ridiculous show at… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
