I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible.… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into… — Pearl Mackie Copy Share Image
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite. — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
I'm going to kind of take the ride and see how it goes. I'm open to doing all sorts of things. I… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk,… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
Training and eating with super precision and determination on top of an already busy schedule as an actor and businessman has been… — Hafthor Bjornsson Copy Share Image
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script,… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God… — Jimmy Pardo Copy Share Image
I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles. — LaChanze Copy Share Image
Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it. — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had… — Fiona Gubelmann Copy Share Image
But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I… — Jason Mewes Copy Share Image
According to me, every actor is struggling in the industry. Someone is trying to live up to their father's name, or someone… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me… — Asin Copy Share Image
Before I transitioned, I was double-acting, if that makes sense. I was acting being a guy, and I was employed as a… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“Toxic people are great actors. They will utilize whichever props are available to maintain control in the relationship.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
