I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve. — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors,… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the… — Shenae Grimes Copy Share Image
I don't think I am the first actor whose film hasn't made money and I am not going to be the last.… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
I did 500 shows of 'Chaula Devi' and 700 shows of 'Anarkali'. I never mixed the filmy style with classical arts and… — Asha Parekh Copy Share Image
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor?… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I… — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody… — Emma Donoghue 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
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit… — Charlotte Rae Copy Share Image
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no purpose for me ever to embarrass an actor by not getting the best possible performance. So, if it takes… — Andrea Romano Copy Share Image
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting… — Hugh Skinner Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything. — Ana Layevska Copy Share Image
I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets. — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close,… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I think that's who you should be servicing as an actor is the fans. You don't wanna alienate new people from coming… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
I want to be a three-dimensional actor, excelling in comedy, negative roles and even serious roles. — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character. — Shiri Appleby Copy Share Image
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor. — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has… — Kali Hawk Copy Share Image
What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
