The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor,… — Common Copy Share Image
I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and… — Jeff Garlin Copy Share Image
You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about… — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
I've only ever really been in shows of friends, so I don't know exactly what happened. I think I'm incredibly cheap to… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I started my career by becoming a stalker, watching women in the street, the way they greet each other. I thought if… — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
I watched the Oscars, but there wasn't a side of me that was like "Oh, one day..." It was mostly "This is… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past. I think if you're a competent actor with a… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never… — Sian Clifford Copy Share Image
I find the horror genre quite challenging. That's not to say everything I've done has been straight horror - a lot of… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do… — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
I have been working as an actor for 16-17 years now. The funny thing is I still feel awkward in communicating with… — Gong Yoo Copy Share Image
I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves -… — Bronson Pinchot Copy Share Image
I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
How much money I demand - or don't demand - is my prerogative as an actor. However, when it comes to commercials,… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
My microphone went out in the 2009 Tony Awards. It was my big moment, and I was so excited to perform and… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
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