There's so much confidence and freedom that comes from that way of doing things. Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph make the set… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
With a group of people, a troupe of actors in the theater, you go out on tour, and you're like a traveling… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19,… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away,… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I'm amazed how unable I am to deal with the demands that are made on me as an actor. Not the one… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people… — Golan Levin Copy Share Image
In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
During my senior year, when I was attending the University of Michigan and getting a drama degree, the Purple Rose Theatre was… — Matt Letscher Copy Share Image
I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible… — Motti Lerner Copy Share Image
I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just… — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -… — Michael Cerveris Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active,… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then,… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was… — Mickey Sumner Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
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