The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do. — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show. — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it… — Hansika Motwani Copy Share Image
The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated… — Hansika Motwani Copy Share Image
We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't… — Daisy Shah Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
I have been rather selective, doing not more than two or thee films a year, so that leaves me with plenty of… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
In drama we are taught to view both sides equally. With empathy. That's how you play 'Richard the Third.' By walking in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater… — Oscar Torre Copy Share Image
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel. — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I want to open an eye or two about what being an actor is really like because it's not all red carpets… — Kenan Thompson Copy Share Image
The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task. — Prosenjit Chatterjee Copy Share Image
It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work. — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
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