I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
It's really neat to get inside someone else's head and be someone else for a little bit. I also love working with… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then,… — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much… — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on… — Liane Balaban Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times, when you're working in this business, and you're both actors or somehow involved in the industry,… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer;… — Mili Avital Copy Share Image
There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
No, I went through a process just like I would any other job in which my agent received the breakdown for 'Doctor… — Mandip Gill Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons… — Zoe Perry Copy Share Image
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer.… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
He kept alive the best parts of the old-fashioned industry, which was just 'I'm not gonna gas you up to your face.'… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
'Sarfarosh' has made people realize that I can act. This film has made me grow as an actor. There was a general… — Mukesh Rishi Copy Share Image
I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting,… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
It's something that I feel every young person goes through, this idea that they're not doing enough, or that they're stuck. Definitely… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
People don't always understand the way it works with casting. TV projects tend to be commissioned to screen at a particular time… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff… — Peter Scolari Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image