I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater. — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I get scared of such love where people come out of the theatre and say, 'This is the best work of Anubav… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now...… — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by… — James Carver Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket… — Gordon Chan Copy Share Image
I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics,… — Herman J. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The studio and the stage are very different atmospheres. The studio is very personal. You are alone with your own idea and… — KK Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
As an actor, it doesn't matter to me if I play the role of a mother, with or without make-up and so… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
I don't act in sex comedies, and whoever acts in them, I don't think it's bad, because cinema, art and theatre are… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule. — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
At the end of the day we need to experiment and if we start being too cautious, we'll end up working with… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally,… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way. — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
If you're only doing showbiz stuff and you're not having a real life, it's like what are you talking about during standup… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started. — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
