Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do… — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial… — Raquel Cassidy Copy Share Image
Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business.… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces… — Joanne Whalley Copy Share Image
I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's… — Melanie Scrofano Copy Share Image
Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't… — Reshma Shetty Copy Share Image
Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try… — John Forsythe Copy Share Image
. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies.… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want… — Grant Gustin Copy Share Image
I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs.… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that the children's theater in Los Angeles that I grew up with was me and Ben Platt and Kathryn… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
I remember a drama class that I took where they were like, 'Okay, so the first thing you do is think about… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap'… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than an anxiety-filled, fearful actor who just needs that next job, because they're not gonna get that next job.… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it.… — Alexander Hanson Copy Share Image
Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I wound up going to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, which was a really life-changing experience that's still… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as… — Omar Dorsey Copy Share Image
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