It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.' — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on… — Ross Butler Copy Share Image
Every budding actor should constantly focus on acquiring his/her skills rather than getting disappointed. — Shehnaaz Gill Copy Share Image
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all. — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
At that age, filming Harry Potter, I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
We tend to say that some films are made for multiplex audience and some for single-screen theatres. — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
People love talking about how much an actor makes. A lot of headline space is dedicated to this. — Tamannaah Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play.… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work. — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and my mom… — Skye McCole Bartusiak Copy Share Image
I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every… — Austin Peck Copy Share Image
If you are a good actor, then all you have to do is give your best shot every time when you are… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally. — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other… — Stella Maeve Copy Share Image
There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts… — Robert Schenkkan Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year. — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script… — Jaime Camil Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do… — Shanola Hampton Copy Share Image
Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town… — John Cho Copy Share Image
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