I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth. — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions. — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it.… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
You will have to take up responsibility in multiple areas as a lead actor. Let's say, I don't have that capacity. — Biju Menon Copy Share Image
You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to… — Loretta Devine Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real… — Brian Gleeson Copy Share Image
Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that. — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
I was keen on dancing, and acting offers were coming in. I was ready to enter the industry, but my parents felt… — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a star and an actor. If you feed off from being in the public eye, this is… — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
I was going to school with a girl who was an actor. And I was, like, 'No, I want to be an… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
As an actor, I obviously want to do lead roles but over a period of time, one gets prepared to carry a… — Anupriya Goenka Copy Share Image
One of the things that's hardest as an actor is you are being critiqued constantly, and having your mother critiquing you can… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the… — Callum Turner Copy Share Image
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap. — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I never thought 'Crook' wouldn't work with the audience - in fact, no actor ever has that in mind especially when it's… — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
There's a certain expectation for an actor to be a blank slate, but I'm not. I know what I'm into. — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as… — Walter D. Asmus Copy Share Image
If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
