With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I… — Joe Cole Copy Share Image
The audience at the Apollo took no prisoners. They would boo you in a second. It was better than any schooling that… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
It's called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I think it's very honest to say that we value male actors over everybody else. We think their acting is more serious… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It feels great when you get to contribute in a show or a film in several ways. When you see lesser known… — Abhishek Banerjee Copy Share Image
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
As an actor, I have to kind of be careful not to sort of telegraph too much, because I'm then also then… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the bottom line is that actors act. They take on roles that are outside of the scope of their… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
Two planeloads of California actors and directors flew to Washington in support of the Hollywood Ten, and some of us, like John… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents'… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you… — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week… — S.M. Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think… — Luke Goss Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict.… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I sometimes do worry that actors are people's role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them.… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
