You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I've been so grateful for writing, and writers and, actually I would say that that is the cornerstone of my career, the… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Has it ever happened, you’ve seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus...… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I… — Joe Cole Copy Share Image
The audience at the Apollo took no prisoners. They would boo you in a second. It was better than any schooling that… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sampling I made from the usual suspects (print, TV, radio, magazines). Zombies on the left, purgatives on the right, word… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I had a different agent after 'Hook,' and they were, like, 'We don't know where to go with you. It's like you've… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off.… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking… — Susanna White Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its… — Robert Sean Leonard Copy Share Image
All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week… — S.M. Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
