As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long,… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
When I was at drama school some of the teachers, who were very wise, said to me, 'You're going to be a… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
People forget, most of the times we audition with people who aren't necessarily actors. So it doesn't matter who or what's in… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
I don't believe in having to show anybody anything. I just do my work. You know, making a living as an actor… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Both Shah Rukh and Kajol are serious actors, who keep rehearsing their dialogues, going through their lines and are extremely hardworking. They… — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
Before transition, a lot of trans people pretend to be cis anyway, and in fact, after transition, a lot of trans people… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be,… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I just feel so blessed to be able to act, because it's unbelievable to work with these great actors that I have… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
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