I am a physical retailer by trade - if your shop is burgled you don't immediately think, 'Is it North Korea? Is… — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I… — Chris Wood Copy Share Image
As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and William Morris was never interested -… — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an… — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
There was one scene in which I wore a wig, full make-up and stilettos and thought, 'Oh my God, my family, all… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to act but I was really afraid to desire something that seemed so unrealistic and a long… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone… — Kathleen Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It… — William Forsythe Copy Share Image
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt… — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open,… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
A lot of people's lives are built around a healthy lifestyle. I take really good care with what I eat, and exercise… — Mariana Klaveno Copy Share Image
The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an actor the first time I thought it wasn't going to be possible and decided to… — James Tupper Copy Share Image
I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade.… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
A play called 'Bichchu' with Om Puri in the main role was going to be staged and I was working backstage. An… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I worked at a theatre on Long Island, where I grew up, in the box office… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home,… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
