If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I agree that an actor's shelf life is so less, so they want it to move faster. But in that fast forward… — Sana Khan Copy Share Image
After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting. — Ralph Ineson Copy Share Image
Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I've always wanted to direct and write. But I've been so busy - and fortunate… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind… — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in… — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week… — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a… — Joanne Whalley Copy Share Image
I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money,… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies. — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
I often get people saying they are a disabled actor and how nice it is to see a disabled actor on screen. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that… — Katharine Ross Copy Share Image
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on… — Arthur Lowe Copy Share Image
In many ways, Nog is a lot like me, like the way he goes after Starfleet with such tenacity, much the same… — Aron Eisenberg Copy Share Image
When you're working with an actor who's prepared and brings it when you need it, it's just a very validating creative experience. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I really don't think I will do the dancing type of movies with 'jhatka-matkas' any more. Every actor goes through a phase,… — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
I definitely wanted to give acting a shot. And Mom helped me decide what I should do by insisting that my decision… — Riya Sen Copy Share Image
Acting is a career, and you can't expect everything to work out the way you want. One has to be mature enough… — Asin Copy Share Image