A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime.… — Lance Burton Copy Share Image
I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters.… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As actors, you have to keep showing variety in performance, as people are lazy to think about you in a different way. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the… — Tobias Menzies Copy Share Image
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd be very interested to direct myself on film. I think it would be almost impossible on the stage. — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day we need to experiment and if we start being too cautious, we'll end up working with… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally,… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way. — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started. — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If you're only doing showbiz stuff and you're not having a real life, it's like what are you talking about during standup… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
As an actor, it doesn't matter to me if I play the role of a mother, with or without make-up and so… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
I don't act in sex comedies, and whoever acts in them, I don't think it's bad, because cinema, art and theatre are… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
