If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel… — Jerry Trainor Copy Share Image
I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors,… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
There should be room for everything in the West End, be that a blockbuster musical or a good straight play. I would… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that… — James Corden Copy Share Image
People think that unless you become the de-glam girl, who has horrible things happening to her, you're not really acting; all it… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
My mom was a sub teacher her whole life. My aunt was a teacher her whole life. So that wasn't hard to… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
I've secretly harboured a desire to direct for a quite a long time. It's so much more challenging. As an actor you… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors'… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“It is through hearing about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings… that children learn or mislearn what a child and… — Michael Ward Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how… — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
“What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the… — Chris Coppernoll Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
All I really want to do is play, that's all that matters. I don't think I've ever tried to cultivate an image.… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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