I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment,… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
After having struggled through some close friends' and family members' battles with cancer, I wanted to create an American drama about the… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
“What is a play? A public holiday? A lesson? A pastime? In the first place it might seem that a play ought… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Every actor starts out saying, 'I can play anything in the world: I'm only 25, but I can be a man 70… — Peter Graves Copy Share Image
I started in theatre, moved into film and television, and started doing voice work, which is funny because after a long time… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know?… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
What I'm known for - 'Game of Thrones,' 'Star Wars' - they film in England, but they're American productions. Because American productions… — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV. — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I have a lot to prove to myself still as an actor. And I still… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me. — Danny Burstein Copy Share Image
Jack Bender is a real actor's director. Because he was an actor, and because he directed theater, he really enjoys that process. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem. — Jerry Orbach Copy Share Image
An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
In subsidized theater, you are encouraged to take risks. It's about being imaginative and artistic. That's the priority. It might not be… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to sit in a theatre and watch petty arguing and boring sex scenes (ahem, Jason Segal and Emily Blunt).” — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor,… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
“You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
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