With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I'd always seen that people who had a piece of paper saying they were an actor as people who are definitely sort… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
You try to make them comfortable so they can do what they're best at, and make them shine. You always want to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Actors, painters, dancers, comedians, even just ordinary people doing ordinary things, what are they without an audience of some sort? See, that's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The crowd. That was what it was all about. That was why I busted my ass. That was why I had shut… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
“I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It takes such a particular amazing and extraordinary type of personality to become an actor. I love them. You can't do my… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The secrets that the characters hold are held back from the audience, and that's such a delight to hold onto. When you're… — Tom Hughes Copy Share Image
(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors'… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I don't know whether it's spiritual development or trying to learn the psychologically with being an actor, but I realise the more… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
“...behind the scene, under the surface of reality, you are all actors, marvelously skilled at playing parts and in getting lost in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the… — Riley Redgate 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
What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Yet, I can almost hear you saying, “Well, I’m not really a performer and I’m certainly not an actor; in fact, I’m… — Michael Port Copy Share Image
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
