I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time.… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
When the scene is over, a lot of people cut. The actors are acting. And they just stop acting. But I think… — Clea DuVall Copy Share Image
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I… — Larry Hovis Copy Share Image
In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice?… — Gautam Rode Copy Share Image
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that's not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be… — Charlie Weber Copy Share Image
I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
It's really neat to get inside someone else's head and be someone else for a little bit. I also love working with… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
Even during my short film days, I approached theatres with the idea of playing them during the interval. They thought it was… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the… — Brad Hall Copy Share Image
I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,'… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
It's part of the film-making business and also part of the creative process - putting all the pieces together to make a… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of… — Clive Rowe Copy Share Image
Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
That's the thing about stage: It's something you can't find anywhere else. It's a two-and-a-half, three-hour experience, and it's a real relationship.… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I… — Stephen Root Copy Share Image
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