I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role… — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was… — Danielle Campbell Copy Share Image
Todd Haynes was incredible, he treated me like an adult, communicated with me, was supportive, he treated me as any director would… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It's not that demanding. It's fun. That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although… — Anne Reid Copy Share Image
We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Auditions are already the worst thing in the world. They're so nerve-racking. It's so unfair to ask someone to show you all… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back… — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun… — Frankie Muniz Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret. — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
