I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no,… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre.… — Antony Sher 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 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 was always writing and telling stories as a kid. Initially, I was like, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' Then… — Nia DaCosta 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
It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of… — Marin Ireland Copy Share Image
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
It's not that an actor needs to be pampered so much as that one needs to provide a nurturing environment that is… — Rekha Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every day is a journey for me. I just feel fortunate to be an actor. I'm working, and I love it. — Greg Vaughan Copy Share Image
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
I think TV in general is camp. 'X Factor' is camp, 'Strictly Come Dancing' is camp. Basically, an orange man comes down… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by… — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
I think my drama club teacher really didn't like me, because I would be the goof-off. I wouldn't get the part, so… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over. — Morgan Brittany Copy Share Image
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I… — Melissa Benoist Copy Share Image
I didn't mean to go into comedy, that was accidental - acting was my original ambition and I would really love to… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
