The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always… — Tammy Blanchard Copy Share Image
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We… — Terry Funk Copy Share Image
I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written… — Jesse Williams Copy Share Image
I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
When you become an actor, at some point you look for something that brings you back to your roots. You find something… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who… — Amala Paul Copy Share Image
On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Doing three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there's a switch in your brain that censors… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to direct any more theatre because I wanted to try something different, to move into another realm. — Rachel House Copy Share Image
I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience. — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an… — John Candy Copy Share Image
As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University… — Amanda Warren Copy Share Image
I like to pick out a certain part of each show I'm in and I watch it when I'm not onstage or… — Colin Donnell Copy Share Image
I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager. — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the… — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
When you're an aspiring actor, you do so many self-tapes that it gets to a certain point where you have to develop… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I've been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.' What's crazy is that I'm… — Emily Hampshire Copy Share Image
After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
