Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
The announcement that I was going to be an actor was made when was I was 10 years old. And that didn't… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very… — Bobby Deol Copy Share Image
If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and… — Luke Grimes Copy Share Image
I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
We would pay for our own shows, we would put them on, we did everything ourselves, so I've always totally loved being… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Actors actually have a feeling, like a sixth sense. They are like mediums. But it only works - you can only become… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
Who are these people who are taking these decisions of casting only young actors in films? It is the filmmakers and the… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
What I do is to collaborate with each actor and work one-on-one to create a character. And that is a matter of… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to… — Mariana Klaveno Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy,… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
In a way, a stage can be the safest place to be visibly queer and non-gender conforming because you're literally surrounded by… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
They're not so much fans of independent movies are they are of independent theatres. They like small theaters with a vague, septic… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films,… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're… — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing what to do when you're rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you're adrenalized and… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image