I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing… — Billy Crudup Copy Share Image
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director. — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe… — Delta Burke Copy Share Image
“I'm more into the avant-garde, more into the strange. But as a young actor, they take you while you're stupid and mold… — Henry Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
As with most audiences when there is a live celebrity on stage, our laughter is performative, disproportionate, and noncontextual: a semaphoric ass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time. — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I grew up on a staple of films where I saw actors like Waheeda Rehman, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I'm on stage. I'm constantly being viewed, and as sad as it is, I'm one of those guys I would rather just… — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
I am an actor. I love acting, and I absolutely love what I do, but I don't want it to be every… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage… — James Caan Copy Share Image
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like… — Y'lan Noel Copy Share Image
“For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
