Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it. — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or… — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
“As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
I think I naturally emote a lot. And, just growing up, I'm a theatre kid, I grew up in performing arts, and… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when… — Wayne Rogers Copy Share Image
Maybe because I am an actor-casting director, I always felt that we need good actors in the industry and we need to… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it. — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things. — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
The thing that inspired me to become an actor was to work on stage three hours a night in a play, sleep… — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
It's an absolute blast to be a voice actor, but also kinda scary that the vocal baby you just birthed out at… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it… — Dede Gardner Copy Share Image
As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going… — David Morse Copy Share Image
Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all… — Phil Daniels Copy Share Image
I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
When you do a television series like 'Upstairs, Downstairs' - it took five years - you want to go back to the… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I like to do a wide variety of things, and acting, particularly in the theatre, has given me that opportunity. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there. — George S. Kaufman Copy Share Image
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
