On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot… — Brent Sexton Copy Share Image
Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
“To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“Andrew laughed at the use of the word “theater.” “B.Atlman will have plenty of theater on Monday,” he said, “when Estée Lauder… — Lynn Steward Copy Share Image
I moved to New York at 17 to pursue theater. I didn't know anyone and I didn't have any sort of way… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script;… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Child actors become types. The cutesy type, the funny type, the dark type. Any time you're a type, your career's over. It's… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever… — Christopher Egan Copy Share Image
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces. — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
When I went to theater school, most of the people I graduated with aren't working. I've consistently worked and made a good… — Karan Soni Copy Share Image
If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it. — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
As actors, I really feel that unless you don't believe in the part, you won't be able to portray it on screen. — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
Having experience in film and television both, I feel both are equally powerful and satisfying for an actor. — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky. — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an honor. — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background. — Scarlett Bordeaux Copy Share Image
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and… — Sia Copy Share Image
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding, — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
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