Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work… — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put… — Brian Ortega Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor since I was three years old; I would dance to Madhuri Dixit's 'Ek do teen' in… — Athiya Shetty Copy Share Image
Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
“He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it… — Tamsin Greig Copy Share Image
I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you.… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“(On literary festivals) When you go and see a band play live, you are watching it do on stage what it is… — Nicholas Lezard Copy Share Image
We had a great dramatics department in school, so I did a lot of plays and theatre there. Later, when I was… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of,… — Selena Copy Share Image
The beauty of film is that you can get closer than you can in theater, you know? I come from theater, and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making… — Nivin Pauly Copy Share Image
My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ.… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater... The word "Art" should be written… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take… — Warren Christie Copy Share Image
I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in a costume drama. Yes, I like them. I enjoy the leap of imagination and the richer-than-modern-language they… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would… — Glenn Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
