I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
I decided to try drama for the attention and making my family laugh. There is no greater joy then hearing your parents… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then… — Retta Copy Share Image
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't… — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get… — Josh Stewart Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
I vacillate between feeling grateful for what I have in such hard times for the music business and being frustrated that I… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
Every actor has his own approach towards acting. I believe you do not become the character you are playing. You may get… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
I do these things, as an actor, that I would have been oblivious to, if I hadn't studied acting. You start to… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker,… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows… — A. J. Bowen Copy Share Image
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
People always think that I came from this dynasty of actors. But that's not true, because it was just dad. So as… — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
“The room was a machine that measured my condition: how much of me remained, how much of me was no longer there.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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