As a nonbinary person starting out as an actor, I feared there wasn't space for me in the mainstream industry. — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession. — Fatima Sana Shaikh Copy Share Image
I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my… — Luis Guzman Copy Share Image
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time. — Pablo Schreiber Copy Share Image
I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield -… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I've always thought that when anyone receives an award for acting they should always thank their fellow actors, because the only way… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
When you have friends in the industry, you're always expected to talk about work. Seldom do you talk about stuff outside work… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get… — Barret Oliver Copy Share Image
I think its really cool when someone can be more than an actor or a musician. But theres no one who I… — Miles Robbins Copy Share Image
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in… — Lee Pace Copy Share Image
It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
The life of an actor is sort of abnormal in the sense where you never know what's going to happen, which I've… — Nick Gehlfuss Copy Share Image
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to… — Charles Keating Copy Share Image
As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a… — Larry Drake Copy Share Image
During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers. — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
“An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My father - I have grown up with him being a respected actor, and I have taken a lot with me from… — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal. — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a… — Casey Nicholaw Copy Share Image
I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family has ever been into the field of acting. But I always wanted to be an actor and I… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
Early on, I had a passion for theater, but my parents were very sports-focused, so while I played different sports, theater was… — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
