If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not make an effort to promote myself as a brand. I just focus on making the right choices that feel… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity. — Margo Martindale Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite. — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it,… — Andrea Anders Copy Share Image
I'm from San Diego. My parents weren't involved in theater, but my mother encouraged my interest in it. She bought me the… — Casey Nicholaw Copy Share Image
I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
If I were a star kid, I wouldn't have tried so many things. I would have done theatre and directly joined movies.… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
I like pointing the camera at the actors and letting them fight. Don't let the camera do the fighting for you, and… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script,… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God… — Jimmy Pardo Copy Share Image
I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I never say, 'I only want to do things like this,' I am not that sort of actor. I don't have that… — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into… — Pearl Mackie Copy Share Image
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible.… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
As an actor, the joy lies in being able to play roles that you are not. If I get a chance to… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend,… — Dennis Christopher Copy Share Image
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I always think as actors, we have the privilege of going to red carpet events and dressing up and having glam teams.… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see… — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly… — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
