It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script,… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus.… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said,… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And,… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
The truth is that's always when it's the most fun, when you're able to just be wherever you are, be whatever scene… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always been a huge fan of fantasy and adventure, putting yourself in someone else's shoes, I'm sure that's why I'm an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're… — Brandon Lee Copy Share Image
I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor,… — Common Copy Share Image
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a… — Mike Newell Copy Share Image
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I did this class when I first moved to California. It was a 'Kids on Camera' class up in the Bay Area.… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's… — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw was in the Music Business for 5,000 years in his life time and he was in 5,000,000,000 movies all together… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a… — Mark Rydell Copy Share Image
It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
