My basic thought about actors, and I would say this to my students - I love to teach, but I haven't in… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school.… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
So way back, Jonathan and I were - we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to… — Merle Dandridge Copy Share Image
Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
Let's build women's football from the bottom before we get to the top; it's not about building from the top to get… — Nikita Parris Copy Share Image
As an actor, I feel my job is to perform with utmost honesty and then it is just the film's fate. Of… — Radhika Madan Copy Share Image
Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
“For we rationalize, objectify, and personalize the process of the game exactly as we do that of a play, a drama. For,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a… — Larry Silverberg Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a… — Judd Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures… — Eran Kolirin Copy Share Image
“Outside much has changed. I don't know how. But inside and before you, O my God, inside before you, spectator, are we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Acting is really creative, and there's artistry to it, but I don't think that just because you're an actor, you're an artist.… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle.… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I grew up doing musical theatre in L.A. at this sort of children's theatre/community that was kind of my escape from school… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film… — Faith Prince Copy Share Image
My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Maybe for others it was difficult to find a role that suited my type. But I never thought of myself as a… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act.… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
