To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent. — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
It wasn't until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress. — Liu Yifei Copy Share Image
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as actors, if we work hard enough and stay at it long enough and are malleable and directable, then good things… — Peter Scolari Copy Share Image
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it,… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents,… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“Many in the audience consider leaving. If anyone leaves, let them leave. The theatre is not a prison. If anyone coughs, cough… — Lem Doolittle Copy Share Image
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
No, nothing much has changed in me as an actor. Since the day I started out, I always wanted to be part… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
It's really hard to make a living as an actor. I'm grateful as I drive to work every morning. — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
I didn't really enter into the real world until I was probably at drama school. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work. — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types. — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
I think, in all this race and competition, we actors forget how to have fun. — Ali Fazal Copy Share Image
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
