My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah . I take the stage to the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“In a country that values the ballroom dancing talents of washed-up actors, writers were less than afterthoughts.” — Reed Farrel Coleman Copy Share Image
As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel. — June Brown Copy Share Image
Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation. — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe… — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
I feel an image is a creeping jail growing all around you without you even realising it. Suddenly, you are trapped, and… — Vivek Oberoi Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my… — Annie Murphy Copy Share Image
As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
In the stage of life, characters come and go after their performance. If someone is gone, just smile and clap in appreciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
