One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors,… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier… — Mel Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
“Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In a dream world, it is to be able to continue picking and choosing projects that stand out to me and challenge… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
My film with Pawan Kalyan sir, 'Vakeel Saab,' came in theatres and collected humongous figures in the first weekend. It was a… — Nidhhi Agerwal Copy Share Image
If you are only getting two takes and you are on a crazy set where there is a lot of noise and… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“I fought back the tears that came with experiencing something as perfect and powerful as the performance I'd just had. That was… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
One of the great, truly extraordinary privileges of being an actor is to interact with individuals from all walks of life, you… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
“The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines--the closer to really beginning to act, in short--the more Chinese… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is… — Tammy Blanchard Copy Share Image
I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to… — Bailey Chase Copy Share Image
In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl...… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
I want to be the most famous actor the world's ever seen. I don't want to be able to walk down the… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism—and vice versa. In cinema—as in life—the text, the words, are refracted… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
