It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I feel proud of myself for 'Chicken Shop Date' getting to a place where it's more of a mainstream thing. I've always… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
Whenever I would go to Hrithik's vanity van to chat or rehearse lines, I'd see him working out or watching inspirational videos.… — Mrunal Thakur Copy Share Image
When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I remember my first agent telling me - because they found me as an actor, but I was probably more interested in… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of… — Michael Clarke Duncan Copy Share Image
I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
I have been doing stuff for a long time now and you would be in people's consciousness. But when you get something… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anything more debilitating, anything more challenging, anything more thrilling than to get on a stage and do any kind… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it.… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Maybe this is so pretentious, but 'West Side Story' was everything I had ever hoped to accomplish as an actor. It's really… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
Plans for a Spider-Man film had gone on for so long. It was starting to look like there would never be a… — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
I would like to get a wider audience. With 'Tiger Zinda Hai' I reached out to Salman Khan's market, through 'Soorma' I… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that… — Dayo Okeniyi Copy Share Image
Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do -… — Jason Bennett Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest and most popular movie stars in the world are limited or have constantly done what they do really… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening… — Dominic Purcell Copy Share Image
Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
