I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film.… — Sabrina Lloyd Copy Share Image
Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it’s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs… — Kim Tae-yeon Copy Share Image
I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada.… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I was at a loose end, and someone suggested that it would be something that I should take a look at, and… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“When I enter the theater and there is a show onstage, it makes me feel safe in the knowledge that the world… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I remember being interested in theater when I was in school, but I wasn't always engaged in making it a career. I… — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
“An actor is no more than an assortment of odds and ends which barely add upp to a whole man. An actor… — Alec Guinness Blessings in disguise Copy Share Image
In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
That's one of the cool things I love about television, is it's able to evolve and able to adapt and the actors… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as… — Nicholas Hoult Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to… — Shiri Appleby Copy Share Image
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“Going on stage was like being at a butchers’ convention. And, of course, the animal rights people were going nuts. The American… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I can go into New York and sell out a theatre, but I didn't have to fight my way to get there:… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded… — Sam Underwood Copy Share Image
I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because… — James Roday Copy Share Image
Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had,… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
We make movies about remarkable people like President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in "The Island President" and Al Gore in the… — Jon Shenk Copy Share Image
When you're younger you don't care so much, but as you get older you have a family and stuff like that. But… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
In the early days, some producers and directors saw me in the musical 'Evita' and cast me in their movies. They heard… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor and my parents were happy with my decision. But that happened later. They were apprehensive… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
