I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I studied at RADA in London for the summer. I wanted to live abroad and to pursue drama,… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“Is it right to be watching strangers in a play / in this strangest of theatres? / What childishness is it that… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
In college, I was teetering on the edge: Do I want to be an actor? Do I not want to be an… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it.… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
“An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors… — David Walton Copy Share Image
An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to… — Michele Lee Copy Share Image
It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set,… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were… — Eugenio Derbez Copy Share Image
When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach.… — Maren Ade Copy Share Image
I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became… — Mark Harmon Copy Share Image
I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Anytime I get an acting role, I find a way to learn about something new, or heal a part of my life… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a… — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
There's so much control of the audience's experience when you're on stage doing a play, whereas when working on camera, there's a… — William Jackson Harper Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The best times are when the time on stage becomes much slower and the movement much bigger - in that case, everything… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
When I first went for a meeting with my management company, the guy in charge of the place, David Prince, said that… — Chris Webby Copy Share Image
Being on film is forever. Television, as well, just lives on and on and on, which is really exciting. But then with… — Bridget Regan Copy Share Image
