When I was about 6 years old, I got dragged into an audition for the school play. A teacher thought it would… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It sounds funny, but I felt that my responsibility as an American actor was to let the British know we can act… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So,… — Wade Boggs Copy Share Image
Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much… — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you. — Carroll Baker Copy Share Image
It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with… — Natassia Malthe Copy Share Image
It's hard enough for disabled people to get acting jobs without able-bodied people taking them. As an actor, I know that I'm… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
We have some extremely talented people that we've ripped off the Broadway stage. It's awe-inspiring how talented they are, and how can-do… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front… — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the… — Ray Walston Copy Share Image
Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first… — Vincent Rodriguez III Copy Share Image
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great… — Christopher Egan Copy Share Image
If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life. — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
“I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
As an actor, you get into makeup, you get into hair, you come out of your trailer, and you hit your mark.… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in… — Alison Elliott Copy Share Image
I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive… — Rupert Graves Copy Share Image
I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The one thing that excites me as an actor is the ability to dive all the way in and immerse yourself in… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. — David Carradine Copy Share Image
