I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions. — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
For me its better to stay away from all the drama its not even worth my time or breath. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs.… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor,… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I find theater emotionally expensive and all-involving. You have to pour so much blood and passion and heart into it. And so… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
1971-79 was when I shared the stage with my father. We did more than 500 plays together. He was a hard worker,… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we… — James Caan Copy Share Image
“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny,… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
