It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were… — Lydia Wilson Copy Share Image
What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“The way out of the drama triangle, as many spiritual teachers, therapists and coaches have suggested, is the creative orientation. This is… — Frank Forencich Copy Share Image
Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set,… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats,… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I've thought about doing theatre again for some time. My last stage play was back in 1999, when I was with Colin… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to be an actor. My earliest memories are of dressing up, trying to get a lot of attention. I'd… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do get stressed at times, but I love what I do as an actor. This is the part that I don't… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
We are the architect of our lives. Dramas are life's lessons to guide us. As long as we choose to connect with… — L RAE BROWN Copy Share Image
A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I've always loved film more than theater, and film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“The Playwright had long been fascinated by the strange mercurial personality of the Actor. What is "acting." and why do we respond… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions… — M.I. Finley Copy Share Image
There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
