Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Nothing is a conscious choice as an actor at the begining stage. There's so little that's a conscious choice even now. The… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none.… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“What I know now is that I would be a different person, or at the least a better version of myself, more… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Live theatre is great. I loved doing the League live because you get that element of spontaneity, but then when I'm doing… — Reece Shearsmith Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
“Because the actor always moves among and in relation to other acting beings, he is never merely a "doer" but always and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
When I was doing Shakespeare and I had spent a lot of time and effort in trying to become a great Shakespearean… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." In short,… — William Missouri Downs Copy Share Image
Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
Cinema and theater - it's apples and oranges. You can't really beat movies. Yeah, when you're on an Oliver Stone set everybody… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
That's the thing about stage: It's something you can't find anywhere else. It's a two-and-a-half, three-hour experience, and it's a real relationship.… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
“Say Anything depends above all on the human qualities of its actors. Cusack and Skye must have been cast for their clear-eyed… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time… — Ben Marcus 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
I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
![“The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I walked out at the end of the play, which is a very intense play - my character is required to do some really horrible things - and the director was waiting backstage and he goes…” quote by Patrick Heusinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da2/patrick-heusinger-20623_beautiful_the-role-i-played-in-theatre-was-origina_722393.jpg)
![“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right…” quote by Justin Nozuka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ea/justin-nozuka-16476_art_i-think-that-watching-artists-soulful-ar_2412225.jpg)
