People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel… — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again -… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
The best phase for an actor is when he or she gets to choose what they want to play. Sometimes you do… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
As a child actor, there are two jobs that you can get: you're either the younger version of someone or you're playing… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
Actors push pause on their lives, fly to foreign countries, invest so much and work so hard and get so intimate with… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I refused to describe myself as an actress until 'EastEnders' because, until then, I couldn't support myself without doing other jobs. — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor,… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of. — Crystal Lowe Copy Share Image
Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser. — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it… — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
