Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor.… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me.… — Gabriel Basso Copy Share Image
I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid -… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part.… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
I take pride in saying that I'm not the usual Hindi film actor who's on the top of her game for 4-5… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles Copy Share Image
There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all… — Omar Dorsey Copy Share Image
Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a… — Jason Dohring Copy Share Image
I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
Films I've really liked are when you've walked out and you're still in that movie for a while. That's virtual reality for… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
“It was a long time since I had been in a theatre. And I would not have come now had Pat not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it… — Christopher Lennertz Copy Share Image
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor,… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater.… — Linden Ashby Copy Share Image
There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out… — Susanna Hoffs Copy Share Image
Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
![“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you…” quote by Taylor Schilling](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb7/taylor-schilling-9238_actor_i-had-an-unorthodox-high-school-experien_2705071.jpg)
![“I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.” quote by Amanda Peet](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b2/amanda-peet-12108_clubs_i-m-still-trying-to-write-i-wrote-a-play_2991270.jpg)
