It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once… — Madhur Mittal Copy Share Image
I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one… — Denzel Whitaker Copy Share Image
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I… — Gina McKee Copy Share Image
It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
Acting is such a high art, and coming from theater, I know how hard it is and respect the craft. I want… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
How to you teach someone that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an individual who has a philosophy and… — Robert Kalfin Copy Share Image
For years we've had all the big-hitting HBO box-set dramas, all these brilliant, witty, clever shows, and in return the only thing… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the… — Michelle MacLaren Copy Share Image
Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh,… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently.… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I still think the highest benchmark for any actor is to be on Broadway. When I talked to my theatrical agent on… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that… — Raul Esparza Copy Share Image
There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
You don't realize it till you get older as an actor, but all the parts you've gotten have led you up to… — Constance Zimmer Copy Share Image
I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
When the actor you're developing a rapport with is directing, you feel much more camaraderie about scenes, and you can relate in… — Sondra Locke Copy Share Image
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how… — Jodie Whittaker Copy Share Image
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
