Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an… — Arsenio Hall Copy Share Image
I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Actors are always afraid of ending up like overcooked old soup over time. What's risky is that you don't realize this has… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
You'll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I've been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing… — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I think most actors are probably very shy - if you're a good one. Putting yourself out there in that way is… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Everything that goes into making a film, when it's the finished product, us as the actors look at the film and go:… — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background,… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that… — Oleg Kulik Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let… — James Franco Copy Share Image
What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
Many times good actors I have known in New York accept series. I tune in at the beginning of the new season… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I think youve got to work out what makes you happy. With me, its that I do lots of different things. So… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
