I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it… — Richard Kind Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
If I go on stage and I think I look cool and I think I'm playing well, that's what it's all about,… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it.… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on… — David Anders Copy Share Image
I remember doing a lot of comedy. I always loved that feeling when you do something on stage and you can feel… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I've always loved and enjoyed the theatre, but I have to say that none of our sponsorships have been done because I'm… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. — Scott Wolf Copy Share Image
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us. — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
“The Players are gentlemen,” he’d intoned, “pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies,… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
When an actor comes completely locked in to what a character should be, that's the hardest thing to undo. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
