What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep,… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can. — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I went to 'Godspell' when I was 10 - my mother took me, and that was the first play I ever saw.… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
My career is weird because it's not like I'm a Liev Schreiber or a Philip Seymour Hoffman, incredibly well-respected theater actors who… — Steven Pasquale Copy Share Image
One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath. — Elaine Paige Copy Share Image
If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Sometimes as a deaf actor navigating television and film, I fret that I am asking for too much or am slowing things… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part… — Zachery Ty Bryan Copy Share Image
My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
Even now while I'm acting on Broadway, I find myself saying things like, 'Well I'm not REALLY an actor, I'm more of… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I think, for an actor, variety is the spice of life. They should do all kinds of roles, so I don't believe… — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on,… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response. — Nicholas D'Agosto Copy Share Image
I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising… — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I… — Max Winkler Copy Share Image
I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Working with Amy Adams was amazing. I've always looked up to her as an actor and as a role model, so being… — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of… — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
According to me, when a filmmaker is writing a role, a certain actor comes to his mind. Now whether that actor resides… — Sayaji Shinde Copy Share Image
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde. — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
It is every actor's dream to work at YRF and I feel very fortunate to be given this opportunity. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends… — Kathrine Narducci Copy Share Image
