I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I would never claim to be an actor as I have never had any training and apart from being in a panto,… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
It is a satisfying feeling for an actor when one gets an opportunity to portray different shades through the character because it… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
I did a lot of TV work for more than 30 years in New York and L.A., but I would get on… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people.… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy. — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Anytime I get an acting role, I find a way to learn about something new, or heal a part of my life… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a… — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Every actor starting out wants to be famous. One of my dreams was always to go to Paris, walk up the Champs… — Peter Graves Copy Share Image
As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else… — Shiri Appleby Copy Share Image
I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg. — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have other careers in terms of stand-up, stage acting and writing, so I don't feel too hidebound by that, but I… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education. — Clarice Taylor Copy Share Image
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's… — Andrea Hall Copy Share Image
“REM sleep ushers you into a preposterous theater wherein you are treated to a bizarre, highly associative carnival of autobiographical themes.” — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is so much more than just acting in the film. A lot of other things like networking and… — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job. — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering,… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth. — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
I want to play around with my looks. It's very boring to appear the same in all your films. Then people are… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
