Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I love the company of my family and I like being on stage performing because I'm interested in people. — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm allowed - encouraged! - to explore emotions that have been basically unacceptable in my life. I have a… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
“Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actors and play many parts on the stage of… — Bryan Michael Stoller Copy Share Image
I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see… — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
Phulwa' was the role of my career and I got to do all what a male hero would do from action to… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same -… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“Here, too, I found neither home nor company, nothing but a seat from which to view a stage where strange people played… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like… — Kel Mitchell Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was sent the material for auditions for 'Dramaworld,' I didn't know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas. — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The… — Maureen Stapleton Copy Share Image
I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
