Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other… — Brooke Adams Copy Share Image
When I played the lead actor, it was a stressful job right from the starting to the release of the film. I… — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
Just as Jack Lewis could go through a whole life without meeting someone that he loved, so you can go through whole… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects,… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give over fully to… — Michael Lomenda Copy Share Image
You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a… — Anohni Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little… — Maggie Siff Copy Share Image
I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman… — Steve Wilkos Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever,… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
From a producer's point of view, of course, 'Law & Order' presents an ideal - a show that is almost entirely actor-proof,… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There are so many actors that I've worked with that I'd like to work with again and there are so many girls.… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across… — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there,… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of… — Robin McLeavy Copy Share Image
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and… — David Hare Copy Share Image
