Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor. — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance. — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night. — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I think as an actor it's always a challenge to experiment and play something that you're not. What's the point if I… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
I think I'm very hard to cast - unless you go out on a limb. I don't look funny. I don't look… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
As an actor, my job is to perform to the best of my ability. Success or the ratings of a show are… — Mouni Roy Copy Share Image
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
If there's any actor who is saying we are not insecure, they are lying, because this job is an emotional one. — Parineeti Chopra Copy Share Image
So many more actors would be so much happier with the process of going to work, the process of auditioning, which is… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum.… — Scott Porter Copy Share Image
I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized,… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
