The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them. — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre,… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
If you give the actors the characters that they are comfortable with, they've no issues with what another actor is doing. — Luv Ranjan Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
I suppose that I'm excited by exciting theater. It takes a risk to show us the world in a new way. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore. — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
I've been a stand-up now for over two decades and I am lucky enough to enjoy the privilege of being able to… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film… — Casey Nicholaw Copy Share Image
It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still… — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff,… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan. — John Carney Copy Share Image
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is… — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an… — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive… — Al Jolson Copy Share Image
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
