I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that… — Saeed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be… — Susan Egan Copy Share Image
Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom. — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing,… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
When I had decided to become an actor, I did a lot of soul-searching to figure out how I could be different.… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to… — Baran bo Odar Copy Share Image
Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves.… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I ventured into cinema after theatre because I didn't want to confine myself to just one auditorium. I wanted the whole world… — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general,… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
As an actor I'll be as madcap as you like, but in character, and after weeks of rehearsal. Don't expect me to… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors. — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm… — John Landis Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit,… — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater. — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
