One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open… — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
It's what every actor wants to hear: that you do a piece of work that you really love, that you're really passionate… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.” — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Acting I never worried about, but it's so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I… — Donna Lynne Champlin Copy Share Image
I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup. — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The best times are when the time on stage becomes much slower and the movement much bigger - in that case, everything… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer. — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like,… — Prabhas Copy Share Image
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Most actors want to do something new, they are always on the lookout, including me. But reinvention should happen organically, you can't… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. — Emory Cohen Copy Share Image
I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything,… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
My ultimate dream, I'm dying to do theatre. You know, that's really, really what I'd like to do. — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I… — Brett Cullen Copy Share Image
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
As an actor, the whole process of shooting for movie or television is so artificial though the final product may be extremely… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays. — Adithya Menon Copy Share Image
You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something… — Bokeem Woodbine Copy Share Image
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock,… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and… — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs. — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow… — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
