I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to… — Heather Hemmens Copy Share Image
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to… — Eriq La Salle Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics,… — Herman J. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
To get health insurance, you give up your dignity - that's what I thought being an actor was. So when 'GLOW' came… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
The studio and the stage are very different atmospheres. The studio is very personal. You are alone with your own idea and… — KK Copy Share Image
On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket… — Gordon Chan Copy Share Image
“We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
“Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long… — Morris Panych Copy Share Image
Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by… — James Carver Copy Share Image
You have to promote yourself. And the only way you do that is by saying no to the things you would have… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
I moved to New York at 17 to pursue theater. I didn't know anyone and I didn't have any sort of way… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script;… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
Child actors become types. The cutesy type, the funny type, the dark type. Any time you're a type, your career's over. It's… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
“Andrew laughed at the use of the word “theater.” “B.Atlman will have plenty of theater on Monday,” he said, “when Estée Lauder… — Lynn Steward Copy Share Image
My first starring role was in 'Rumpelstiltskin' and the lightbulb moment for me came when I had to stamp my foot at… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I worked with Michael Goode back in 2009. We had done a short film together where I was the actor and he… — Daniel Lissing Copy Share Image
If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
What I want is an international monument to the world's greatest playwright. It would be an attraction that would be both educational… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
