When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take… — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able… — Alexis Arquette Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
TV is longer form, and that's sometimes a positive, and sometimes a more challenging thing. As an actor, you want to be… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember… — Becca Tobin Copy Share Image
My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
At eight o'clock the curtain goes up and that's it, you're out there with yourself, the audience, the other players. There's no… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project,… — Jon Seda Copy Share Image
To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in… — John Kani Copy Share Image
The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I remember going to see 'Starlight Express' almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the… — Harry Hadden-Paton Copy Share Image
As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I won't take the credit of being a good actor but I do feel that there are good directors who are boldly… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If you fail to make a mark, you might not get good work later. So, it is important for every actor to… — Anita Hassanandani Reddy Copy Share Image
The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from… — Joseph Chaikin Copy Share Image
Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother… — Drew Fuller Copy Share Image
Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity… — Dean O'Gorman Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
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