I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars. — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and… — Lauren Socha Copy Share Image
I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I… — Steve Marriott Copy Share Image
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows.… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker,… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows… — A. J. Bowen Copy Share Image
“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally."… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
After 'Stree', I started believing that yes, I am an actor. 'Paatal Lok' happened at the right time, when I was ready… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors. — Jon Polito Copy Share Image
Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and… — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Some people assume that I'm a stand-up comedian - I couldn't think of anything worse - and then they ask 'would you… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with… — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
I thought running around trees is a gardener's job and not an actor's. However, if the script demands that I run around… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
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