I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am an actor. I love acting, and I absolutely love what I do, but I don't want it to be every… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
I'm on stage. I'm constantly being viewed, and as sad as it is, I'm one of those guys I would rather just… — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage… — James Caan Copy Share Image
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like… — Y'lan Noel Copy Share Image
As an actor you want opportunities like this but if a big movie hits theres a whole bunch of problems and if… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time. — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I grew up on a staple of films where I saw actors like Waheeda Rehman, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
As with most audiences when there is a live celebrity on stage, our laughter is performative, disproportionate, and noncontextual: a semaphoric ass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director. — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“I'm more into the avant-garde, more into the strange. But as a young actor, they take you while you're stupid and mold… — Henry Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
