As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all. — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“Fuck you. You think this is a scene in some indie drama you take my wife to in the Village, some pack… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
You can learn from getting to watch some of your favourite actors and actresses on-set. It's fascinating. It's amazing how professional someone… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening nobody on the stage at least. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach. — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function. — Karishma Tanna Copy Share Image
“In the sixth row of the theater, in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real. — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The best deal about being a producer is that unlike a director who has to go on the sets even if he… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone. — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
There have been actors who have been extremely successful by doing just about everything that came their way. But I do what… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
