I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more… — Jake Kasdan Copy Share Image
With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
I like to go for auditions. I enjoy that aspect of this job until I actually need a job, and then that… — Michael Socha Copy Share Image
I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
Cook with Comali' was a rebirth of sorts for me. I never wanted to be on television because I wanted to be… — Ashwin Kumar Copy Share Image
The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going… — Geneva Carr Copy Share Image
Writers can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
“...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're… — Saul Rubinek Copy Share Image
When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
For two consecutive Broadway seasons, I had probably the best juvenile roles there were for an actor. Then I moved to California… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
There was no other concern; there was no other focus [in the Governor's School]. It was simply there to learn and grow… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better… — Jonathan Brandis Copy Share Image
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Living in London as a student is tough. And my heart goes out to every single drama student in London because, as… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The first time we wrote a full-blown movie musical was our adaptation of 'Mai, the Psychic Girl' for Tim Burton, which didn't… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles, and you have to… — Michelle Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule… — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my… — Evan Glodell Copy Share Image
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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