I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. I want to try and… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
It's a fun show, BoJack Horseman to do, and that gets around. It's easy, especially for a lot of actors who don't… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
If my parents had plans, like going to a play, I would usually be included, and I didn't realize how special that… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've never taken a job as an actor that I wasn't 100-percent sure I wanted to do. I've never had to think… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
“The ‘role of the theatre’ is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you go to poking what is like a stage show you have man that sling, DJ, and broad...pull it down the… — Barrington Levy Copy Share Image
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that… — Bradley James Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of filmmakers, actors and writers, who have the freedom to do the kind of work they want to… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I… — Manu Bennett Copy Share Image
Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get… — Roberto Aguire Copy Share Image
