My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never… — Brigette Lundy-Paine Copy Share Image
Acting, when you don't want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don't… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“The other guys did not feel the need to understand themselves that in me was so compelling: they could carry out their… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I have worked with Salman a lot of times and have choreographed him earlier also. He doesn't do rehearsals; he never comes… — Remo D'Souza Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together,… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent.… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
You can't ask the guy with the checkbook to always be the person. So, we actors have to try. And believe me,… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself… — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the… — Leslie Howard Copy Share Image
As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors,… — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play.… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these… — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“These ‘offer-block-accept’ games have a use quite apart from actor training. People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
The role has made it harder for me to do new work as an actor. For example, Carlton's character can't dance, but… — Alfonso Ribeiro Copy Share Image
That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
As an actor, there's always the question, especially for someone like me: Will I ever get more opportunities? You don't want to… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
