In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop… — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then… — Cole Hauser Copy Share Image
I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition,… — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people… — Danny Burstein Copy Share Image
The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I… — Andy Karl Copy Share Image
I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I feel, in drama, you don't need to be fed everything. Even though sometimes when you watch, you want to know what… — Jodie Comer Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none.… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Whenever I don't have anything to do, I play Candy Crush or Scrabble. We actors have time between shots, which we need… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we'd see which actor got the big one.… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
“In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to… — Jen Calonita Copy Share Image
I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“ Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
![“I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - - both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.” quote by Kevin Kline](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/236/kevin-kline-16716_acting_i-think-every-american-actor-wants-to-be_1805603.jpg)
