Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
As an actor, I should justify the role given to me. So, as a villain, my job was to make people hate… — Ranjeet Copy Share Image
When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Long ago, I was lucky enough to shoot 'Flashpoint' and 'Durham County' at the same time. It doesn't happen often in an… — Hugh Dillon Copy Share Image
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor. — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect. — Gregory Harrison Copy Share Image
It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and… — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you… — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance. — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden… — Harry Hamlin Copy Share Image
'The Fosters' is such a fun show to shoot, and I always look forward to getting the new script because we keep… — Maia Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
“That would make a fantastic college entrance essay. ‘I Killed My Boyfriend and Still Managed to Maintain a 4.2 GPA and the… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career,… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life.… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood,… — Chris Massoglia Copy Share Image
There's just so much experience that comes with being on set and working with good actors, and having bad days and good… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
David Hayman gave me my Equity card and my first job out of drama school - the first person I really looked… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
