I think every actor, you can say, has at one point decided to slack, phone it in. But Sean Penn shows up… — Chad Michael Murray Copy Share Image
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like cricket. I have played first class cricket and represented Delhi in the Ranji Trophy as a… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can… — James Gray Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little… — Maggie Siff Copy Share Image
I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
I've definitely had inappropriate comments. I've had a producer tell me: 'I'm thinking about you constantly.' He didn't say: 'I'm thinking about… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and… — Jeremy Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I played the lead actor, it was a stressful job right from the starting to the release of the film. I… — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other… — Brooke Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski,… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Jill Furman has been an upstanding member of the Broadway community, with a successful run of award-winning shows under her belt. I'm… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across… — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's… — Mike O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
From a producer's point of view, of course, 'Law & Order' presents an ideal - a show that is almost entirely actor-proof,… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever,… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
