I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As for actors, I would say if you believe in yourself and if you feel that you have something special in you… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
While in college, we used to go for art exhibitions, theatre shows and music concerts. I have spent a lot of time… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
I would never ever want to be an actor playing anyone other than myself. I can't do voices or anything. No, it's… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people… — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
Every step is basically a word, especially with musical theatre, because you're not doing it for dance's sake, you're promoting a story… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I remember being on this film once, and people said, 'You're not on Instagram or Facebook - what's your deal?' They said,… — Joe Gilgun Copy Share Image
The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you.… — John Wesley Shipp Copy Share Image
Teaching theater, I felt very lucky. In a world where there's few options for someone who graduates with a theater degree, trying… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project:… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We learned out craft. Acting is a craft and you must learn it. I see a lot of talent today in the… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person… — Dilshad Vadsaria Copy Share Image
I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I went from someone who really wanted to perform from a really young age - that was all I knew - to… — Jesy Nelson Copy Share Image
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
People who surround them self's with idiots will have drama in their life's 24/7... in order to be drama free YOU need… — Casey Thompson Copy Share Image
I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of… — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
My plan was to go to New York and do some theatre, and then I got the script for 'Psych.' I was… — James Roday Copy Share Image
See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.'… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
You know, 'Top Gun' was the movie I saw in high school that made me want to be a filmmaker. I remember… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
