I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions. — Lucy DeVito Copy Share Image
There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
There's just so much experience that comes with being on set and working with good actors, and having bad days and good… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
David Hayman gave me my Equity card and my first job out of drama school - the first person I really looked… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
As an actor playing a role, you are asked to visit certain sides of yourself day after day, night after night. If… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't… — Francois Cluzet Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my time, growing up, at the Beck Center. I'd be in plays there, and I'd get there… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
'The Fosters' is such a fun show to shoot, and I always look forward to getting the new script because we keep… — Maia Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because… — Clifton Collins, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
There are some actors who will come in firing and they just want to go for it. But they don't want to… — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain. — Asrani Copy Share Image
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you… — Linden Ashby Copy Share Image
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
