When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career.… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that… — Michael Trucco Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I prefer being in front of the camera. I didn't train to be a director and my eye on it is… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
“theatre, pioneering artists such as Fatima Rouschdie and Naguib Al-Rihani introduced popular comedies as well as melodramas (Al-Rihani 1889–1948, ‘the father of… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus… — Marjo-Riikka Makela Copy Share Image
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
You know, in this industry, being an openly queer actor or entertainer, you can play the game your way, or you can… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I feel very fortunate to be currently in the position where I can choose to be an actor, writer, director, or all… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor,… — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
![“Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of…” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a58/andy-serkis-1548_actors_working-with-people-you-adore-and-love-t_1016696.jpg)
![“[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.” quote by Kevin Spacey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bab/kevin-spacey-931_actors_washington-dc-feels-like-you-re-watching_99635.png)
![“As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my…” quote by Julie Benz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c8b/julie-benz-7666_acting_as-an-actor-it-made-me-realize-a-really_1404313.jpg)
