I don't think an actor should have any particular image, and that's the reason I would not ever take up a similar… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging… — Faye Marsay Copy Share Image
I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave… — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
One result of moviemaking - and a side effect of moviegoing - is familiarity. If an actor is particularly good, familiarity opens… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
One of the things that is always hard for actors on set - and it doesn't matter at what stage you're in… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
“The Players are gentlemen,” he’d intoned, “pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies,… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
When an actor comes completely locked in to what a character should be, that's the hardest thing to undo. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting. — David Nutter Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked… — Leslie Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses… — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it… — Josh Schwartz Copy Share Image
I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to… — Kelly McGillis Copy Share Image