My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial,… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that,… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can… — Michael Welch Copy Share Image
If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
“Today's theater-goer must live in dread of walking into a theater and discovering that some classic work has been given a modernized,… — Reduced Shakespeare Company Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In India, big stars like Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan do comedy and serious films and we call them great actors. But… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know? — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut,… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff.… — Michael Socha Copy Share Image
Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's… — Julie Warner Copy Share Image
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say,… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it. — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue… — Ashthon Jones Copy Share Image
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
That theater community that comes with acting and being in the theater is second nature to me. It's in my blood. — Jasmine Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
I get a lot of advice from my dad about how I should be as a human being, but as an actor,… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style. — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not… — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Copy Share Image
Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all. — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong. — Olivier Megaton Copy Share Image
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image