I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
After I did television, I just felt I didn't have any more to give to the medium. And so I went back… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once… — Khalid Copy Share Image
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting.… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with long-distance relationships, it's a relationship played out over technology. When you're in high school, it's because you're not… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
Being a stage performer for me, was - to be in front of people was just something that just came very naturally… — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
No, I don't think I would call myself a theater kid necessarily, who just starts whooping out ballads and songs. I'm more… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are… — Frank Welker Copy Share Image
But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are.… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I… — Fergie Copy Share Image
With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.… — Sammi Hanratty Copy Share Image
I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of… — Roger Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
![“The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/345/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_actors_the-amount-of-preparation-i-saw-from-som_832950.jpg)
![“[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."” quote by Geena Davis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1bd/geena-davis-2583_aunt_my-aunt-took-me-to-my-first-play-too-whi_3042814.jpg)
![“[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it, no bullshit. There's no artifice, there's no fanciness, they're just honest and tough and direct.” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/095/rob-lowe-855_actor_ed-lauter-was-an-actor-s-actor-i-love-wo_2514595.jpg)
