I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do.… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses -… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
To me, when - just like when you watch a movie or you watch a TV show, to me, you know, Nicole… — Lana Copy Share Image
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
I prefer to have longevity. I like as great a variety as possible, hopefully to avoid getting stuck in one kind of… — Bradford Dillman Copy Share Image
Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors?… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not… — John Cho Copy Share Image
The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's… — Bill Anderson Copy Share Image
I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have… — Gavin Edwards Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Michael Gambon telling filthy jokes and Alan Rickman talking about scrambled eggs, just really normal things, and yet they're these amazingly, superb,… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Earl Mills is probably the best role I've ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image