Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception. — Mark Lester Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a very good actor. I'm not bad, but there's not a lot of range in characterizations for me. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
What I feel is great acting might be rubbish for another filmmaker. There is no right or wrong way to do it.… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
“[I]s there not something basically hostile to the actor's art in the consanguinity principle? After all, what is acting but an exercise… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday -… — Michael Cerveris Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active,… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor as a kid, and a lot of people would tell you to be realistic, but from… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. — Kelsey Chow Copy Share Image
I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
When I told my parents that I wanted to be an actor, they were like, 'How can you be an actor? You… — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
As much as I love books and the theater, I think the cinema is a uniquely modern medium that we look to… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's simple: if you are an actor, people are going to be curious about your life. It happens across the world, and… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
I joined the National School of Drama in the 1980s and for anyone who joins the NSD, they eat, sleep and breathe… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off,… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls… — Nicholas Ray Copy Share Image
I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other. — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more… — Clotilde Hesme Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
It does not matter what is the background of actors as long as they fit the role assigned to them. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
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