The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there… — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
As as an actor, you have to be able to relate with the character and be able to create those little thing… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even… — Jung So-min Copy Share Image
When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
I'm an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I'm in this business… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and… — Zachary Knighton Copy Share Image
Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of… — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I… — Chris Wood Copy Share Image
As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and William Morris was never interested -… — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist… — Nikka Graff Lanzarone Copy Share Image
'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre,… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
