Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the… — Marc Blucas Copy Share Image
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see:… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and… — Dave Annable Copy Share Image
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It… — William Forsythe Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I was shooting for 'Kahaani' and 'GOW' back to back. I was in a village on work, where a man extended a… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh,… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But… — Taran Killam Copy Share Image
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident… — Jessica Stroup Copy Share Image
I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It… — Olivia Stuck Copy Share Image
The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about… — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me'… — Cameron Mathison Copy Share Image
Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you… — Rhea Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I thought, I don't want to move to L.A., because I'm kind of an atypical actor. I think it's going to be… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I don't believe in overcooking the actors too much. Especially when it's a real performance that I'm looking for. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow.… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road,… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
Yes I have acted before. I was in a production of Oklahoma! in the 7th grade. I played the part of Mutey… — Dwight Schrute Copy Share Image
Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to… — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm… — Ebon Moss-Bachrach Copy Share Image
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've… — Rupert Graves Copy Share Image
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