If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
“I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy's is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science, in a way.… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum.… — Scott Porter Copy Share Image
I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized,… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid.… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I have finished school and so it's becoming a real job, and as an actor, you cannot always just play roles. To… — Louis Hofmann Copy Share Image
My mother told me years ago, 'You're gonna be an actor.' So I could not play football, I could not wrestle, I… — Michael Clark Duncan Copy Share Image
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off,… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking I'm messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can't stand being on stage or the only one… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
You see somebody like Olivia Colman and say, 'Okay, she's really great at comedy - I wonder if she can do drama?'… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
My favourite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn't play him, because… — Claes Bang Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I… — Shanley Caswell Copy Share Image
I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
“people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the… — Geneva Carr Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
We did not see ourselves as remaking cinema at the time, at least not in my view. Myself and the other actors… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image