When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something,… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly...I thought… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role.… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I think that different actors bring different qualities to the Batman character. It's such a wonderful mantle to put on that I… — Kevin Conroy Copy Share Image
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
![“It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all…” quote by Seth Rogen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/seth-rogen-1831_actors_it-was-amazing-how-much-their-seth-rogen_571486.jpg)
![“Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from…” quote by Kate Winslet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/kate-winslet-875_able_just-coming-to-terms-with-the-fact-that_2333637.jpg)
![“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not…” quote by Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/nick-offerman-2326_academic_when-i-first-went-to-university-i-was-do_2190392.png)
![“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that…” quote by Matt Bomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/358/matt-bomer-2221_actors_one-of-the-many-things-i-love-about-work_775322.jpg)
![“Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "Listen, I think it's really good." And he'll say, "You sure? You sure? There's not some other way we should try it?"” quote by Kenneth Lonergan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/kenneth-lonergan-21526_actors_some-actors-really-like-to-do-only-a-few_1588714.jpg)
![“[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/laurence-olivier-11163_actors_on-whether-he-harbored-any-resentment-at_368719.png)
