The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much. — Dominique McElligott Copy Share Image
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
So, acting has been my dream. But I didn't groom myself for it. I was studying and then got into college. I… — Ananya Panday Copy Share Image
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
“I didn’t really know what kind of actor I wanted to be back then. I didn’t have a real plan or even… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person?… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65,… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name… — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan. — Jaime King Copy Share Image
I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in… — Michael Weston Copy Share Image
There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing… — Cindy Morgan Copy Share Image
I think I arrived in this world to be creative: a performer, and an entertainer, and I channeled that through doing theater… — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to… — Maksim Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things. — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I remember my parents were always around, and that was glorious, but as an adult and as an actor I look back… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
In 'Reggaeton' in particular, I get the opportunity to show my range as an actor. I have scenes where I cry and… — Omarion Copy Share Image
When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for… — Patsy Rodenburg Copy Share Image
