As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That's a red rag to a… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of… — Bradford Dillman Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
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 started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are… — Chiwetel Ejiofor 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
I can never say that I don't want to work anymore. That would be an absolute lie because I enjoy, I take… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the… — Tracy Morgan 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
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The closer you come to being yourself on the screen, the longer you last [because] on television there's always the risk of… — Jack Lescoulie 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
If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
There are musicals I've enjoyed watching, but there aren't many parts in them that appeal to me. I'm a pretty good singer,… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that… — Vinessa Shaw 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
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
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
I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't… — Ben Affleck 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
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to… — Michael J. Fox 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
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
What I'm saying not a lot of people say: What is considered good acting today isn't necessarily good acting, because everybody knows… — Martin Landau 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 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
If I hear 'What was it like working with Steven Spielberg?' one more time, I might jump out of that window. 'Do… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing… — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren't so cut-and-dried... My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite actor is Meryl Streep. She can do anything and everything. She's so good in 'Sophie's Choice.' She changes her… — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
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