I think what makes a good actor is someone who turns up on time, does the work, and treats everyone within that… — Finn Cole Copy Share Image
My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to… — Sid Haig Copy Share Image
I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things.… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. — Scott Wolf Copy Share Image
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us. — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it… — Richard Kind Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about,… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
