When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react. — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
It takes me some time to get into what I am doing - since I am not a trained actor, I don't… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't… — Merrie Spaeth Copy Share Image
An actor is all I ever really wanted to be. But if I couldn't do that anymore... I'd open a book store. — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.' — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I work incredibly hard, and I would say the nature of being an actor involves a lot of studying. Every time you're… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think… — Mathieu Amalric Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
I'm a very fortunate person. I get to choose the movies that I want to do. I have a lot of friends… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance,… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I… — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Some actors don a woman's role briefly during the course of a film but they make it a point to appear as… — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I think I always found a lot of freedom getting to be other people. I think a lot of actors would say… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Though I used to do a lot of stage shows in my childhood and college, but never thought that it would turn… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
I think as an actor it's always a challenge to experiment and play something that you're not. What's the point if I… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
You have to be super close to yourself, and comfortable with it being revealed, in order to be a good actor. — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
