The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to… — Loretta Devine Copy Share Image
You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
I think, you know, as an actor, unless you're exceedingly lucky and you're one of the golden few, a lot of your… — T R Knight Copy Share Image
There was a phase when I cried for days and doubted my decision to be an actor when my films were not… — Suniel Shetty Copy Share Image
I think the real joy of seeing a film in theatres is the privacy of the darkness - you're all facing the… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Acting is attached to almost everyone in Los Angeles. Everyone has stars in their eyes when they come out here. I have… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark horse. It's too scary being the face of something, unless it's really right. A lot of young… — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
“Minus the adverts of TV, the special effects of movies, and the trash of the Internet, live theatre is a personal means… — Tom Jalio Copy Share Image
What happens in Israel, it's not so divided between being a film actor, or a TV actor - usually, we just do… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
To be known as an actor is to be known for your role and lines. But the country knows me for the… — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
Back in the fifties I was the hot, young comic on CBS and a regular on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' I was… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone always asks me, 'What advice did they give you on set?' but when you work with amazing actors like Anjelica Huston,… — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres,… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“had read a description of this ability to act so well in public in Czeslaw Milosz’s book The Captive Mind, in which… — Emma Larkin Copy Share Image
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time.… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor.… — Kerry Condon Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was… — Norman Wisdom Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
When I was doing theatre in Mumbai, actors won't come because they had television. For many years, I did theatre religiously and… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
When you are a young actor, you're imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, 'They hire me for my… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.'… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
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