There was one tour where I thought, "If I can't get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it… — Kelly Masterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a… — Marshall Allman Copy Share Image
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the… — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
Filming in Cloak & Dagger I was trying to get my Screen Actors Guild card. Everybody tries to get their SAG card… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
The big difference I think between tv and stage is definitely the immediate buzz that you get. And that's not just as… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
We were always reminded by our teachers that careers take off at different times. They held up Arthur Lowe as a great… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
I wish that was up to me, But the wonderful thing is that I have had opportunities to do very challenging work… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was… — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Some of the things that happened at theater camp, you would tell somebody and they would never believe. But if you're a… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I… — Rachel House Copy Share Image
For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I am a black woman who has been given this character called Hermione to play on the stage. But actually, we've all… — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
I will always choose to work in a movie based on whether I would want to watch it - if I would… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't… — Drea de Matteo Copy Share Image
We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
