The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone. — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
I love to do things that kind of mess with the movie formula that you can always find the right place to… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
After my schooling in Meerut, I was sent to Allahabad for further studies to become an IAS officer. It was there that… — Vishwajeet Pradhan Copy Share Image
When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
There have been actors who have been extremely successful by doing just about everything that came their way. But I do what… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening nobody on the stage at least. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function. — Karishma Tanna Copy Share Image
For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach. — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real. — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
“In the sixth row of the theater, in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
And I think 'Offspring' has given me that opportunity to really appreciate the audience and want to entertain them and make it… — Asher Keddie Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
Just growing up on 'Friday Night Lights,' other dramas, that kind of shaped my childhood. The fact that I can have one… — Spencer Paysinger Copy Share Image
Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
