Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was… — Richard Lester Copy Share Image
I think it's very easy when you're a young actor starting out to just let everything unfold around you - you're not… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate,… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
I was sending off my plays almost like an 8-year-old would send letters to Santa Claus. So it was a bit of… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
One of the things on a very practical level as an actor or actress is that when you do a play, you… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Being fired is something... You have to really want to be an actor after you go through something like that. Because the… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different ways of going about teaching acting and ultimately you have to just kind of create your own.… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience… — Brooke Adams Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married… — Richard Roxburgh Copy Share Image
I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half… — Shaan Copy Share Image
From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence]… — Ti West Copy Share Image
It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept.… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
My parents are really, really talented and really good at what they do, so I've always learned from watching them. But their… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever… — Daniel Sunjata Copy Share Image
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Just like multiplex theatres, the industry had become divided, making films that alienated one kind of audience or another. It was really… — Boney Kapoor Copy Share Image
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