I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey. — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's… — Jacqueline McKenzie Copy Share Image
My school entered a competition to perform a short play at the National Theatre. We won, I got scouted and I haven't… — Dylan Llewellyn Copy Share Image
On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot… — Brent Sexton Copy Share Image
At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was… — Janel Moloney Copy Share Image
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
The audition process is like playing games at times, where you have to pass many levels. Sometimes, you could pass the contract… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was… — Candis Cayne Copy Share Image
I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there… — Brea Grant Copy Share Image
A lot of our contracts state that it is a 90-day credit period, but why? You work in any company, you get… — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
“Every human being is a bundle of institutionalized roles. He has to play many parts, and unless he knows his lines as… — Elaine Andersen Copy Share Image
I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady. — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the… — Caitlin Hale Copy Share Image
Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and… — Billy Rose Copy Share Image
A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work. — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to… — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky little kid to looking… — Jeff Cohen Copy Share Image
Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated. — Andrea Jeremiah Copy Share Image
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
As an actor, I always have this thing where I can't plan ahead for holidays or a break because I don't know… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
