I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school,… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
Let's face it. I'm not a personality or the handsome actor type. When you have those God-given assets, you don't have to… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people,… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as… — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Doing three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there's a switch in your brain that censors… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me… — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
My theater professor once said to me 'Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you're the laziest actor I know. And… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
I'm at the top, top, top of my game now. I'm so happy to be on that stage, I'm in control of… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
![“I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and…” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f91/susan-sarandon-2799_auditions_i-married-him-chris-sarandon-my-senior-y_2834141.jpg)
![“[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/756/laurence-olivier-11163_actors_on-whether-he-harbored-any-resentment-at_368719.png)
![“[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c03/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_actors_on-bbc-s-sherlock-it-s-a-rare-challenge_2442916.jpg)
