The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage.… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage. — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I love the theater so much, and it's where I feel most comfortable. I love the people and the community. — Katie Finneran Copy Share Image
In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've… — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
I think all actors should be made to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Because otherwise you're not learning anything or developing, and you're not… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
At times I do feel that there is some issue with child actors because in all my films my performance has been… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext,… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is… — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Anyone who walks out on stage, whether he's eight or 80, they'll go, 'Oh, Alesha, he'd be good for you.' I'm the… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's… — Kaitlin Olson Copy Share Image
I have fun on stage. When the crowd see me and my niggas having fun, most likely they gonna have fun too. — T-Pain Copy Share Image
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
The hour and a half I'm on stage is my favourite part of the day when I'm on tour because the only… — Sia Copy Share Image
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's like candy to get to play someone who's sort of in the spy world, because you get to… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
My father is somebody I admire and would like to be. He is a mild man and a gentleman. Even though he… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
