If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about,… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's… — Melanie Scrofano Copy Share Image
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. — Scott Wolf Copy Share Image
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us. — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
A stage play is beautiful only when it is seen as a stage play, just like you cannot get the same effect… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
“The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without… — Jim White Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about TV is that when you discover certain strengths in an actor, you can then begin to… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it's the price… — Huma Qureshi Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a dilemma, being an actor. I know that. But otherwise, I'm a relatively private person. I feel like… — Josephine Langford Copy Share Image
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult… — Richard Widmark Copy Share Image
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
