I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I had been working predominantly and steadily as a dancer, so after awhile, you don't have to audition. I was just in… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless… — James Beard Copy Share Image
I've been a teacher all my life. I've had my own dance studio, my own acting studio for 18 years out here...… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
But the worst feeling as a crowd work practitioner is that not only is crowd work, for me, the most fun thing… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Actors normally go to the gym to achieve a certain kind of fitness for a role but when you start playing a… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup,… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to go into musical theater necessarily. It was never planned. I just kind of fell into… — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It actually takes me a few years before I can watch my own shows, and even then, it's still hard. I'll be… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it,… — Megyn Price Copy Share Image
Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
This is not the 19th century, where actors are expected to play completely opposite roles. We're not typecast, but we're brought in… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
Professional wrestling... is no different than a Broadway play except that in a Broadway play, actors are using dialogue to tell a… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
I love writing comedy and being a part of it, but as a visual, physical presence in a story, I probably am… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a… — Jennifer Sky Copy Share Image
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like… — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
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