Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me,… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback… — C. Thomas Howell Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The thing that's the most lovely to me, looking back at my time on 'Gilmore Girls', was how fortunate I was to… — Liza Weil Copy Share Image
I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we don't know when we start out that when we arrive we haven't gone anyplace." "What's wrong with… — Dean Jones Copy Share Image
When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
I didn't know that I could be an actor until I was 25 years old, and now I continue to go back… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we underprepare the people around… — Autumn Reeser Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is… — Joe Gilgun Copy Share Image
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
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