I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold! — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
It is good if newcomers have a theatre background. It helps in films. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting. — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It was tough: I had to kiss a man, and I got a mixed reaction from the black community. But I have… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
“What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies.… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even… — Glynn Turman Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
My family home was a rented house in the East End of London. My parents could have bought it at one point,… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
“The central drama of my life is about being a fraud, alas. That's a complete lie, really; the central drama of my… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre. — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types. — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That's my challenge as an actor. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own. — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I am content with the way things are working out for me as an actor. — Regina Cassandra Copy Share Image
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
