Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
That was a bizarre and unlikely event, which has misled a generation of drama students from my old drama school that dreams… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Before my commercial career, I never played for more than an audience of 99 seats somewhere in downtown New York, but occasionally… — Paul Marcarelli Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're just taking temperature. I am anyway, all the time, and responding appropriately. I was again cast very last-minute… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
“I remain unenthusiastic about actors. They still couple the producer with the consumer. Yes, one can emulate or implement certain kinds of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great… — Sarah Michelle Gellar 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
I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
You're always learning as an actor... anything you do is a learning experience. It's the same whether you're doing film or TV,… — Roxanne McKee Copy Share Image
One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there… — Matthew Henson Copy Share Image
I started doing community theater when I was seven and I think the intent was just expression. When you're a musician, you… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
“This feeling of power, it's happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I'm semi-idiot, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be anything other than an actor. I started performing on Broadway when I was 8 years old. My… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I want to make activism a bigger part of my life, while hopefully maintaining the opportunity to help out causes that I… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
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