There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show,… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more… — Beatrice Lillie Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just… — Drea de Matteo Copy Share Image
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“It is a masterpiece,' said Jules Fougler. 'I hope you will prove yourself worthy of it, Peter. It is the kind of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Room' has just been something that has spread for so many years in such an organic way because, it's just people… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I did a play at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, Charles Fuller's first play. He went on to… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are… — Rory McCann Copy Share Image
There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were… — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
