You put so much of yourself out there as an actor. You show the many facets of who you are when you're… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
“The pain breached through the indolence of mind. But the dizziness made reactions very slow and stretched, like a novice stage actor… — Abhish Copy Share Image
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are… — Eran Kolirin Copy Share Image
There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film,… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I… — Cedric Yarbrough Copy Share Image
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted… I find myself… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it’s all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming.… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
I don't really hang out with actors. I don't really like talking about it in my free time. I like talking about… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I… — Vanessa Bell Calloway Copy Share Image
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
I've wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I'd been a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz' and was… — Sian Clifford Copy Share Image
I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm… — Marques Houston Copy Share Image
“But the old Italian commedia that I loved—Pantaloon, Harlequin, Scaramouche, and the rest—lived on as they always had, with tightrope walkers, acrobats,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Auditioning is a skill. There are actors who are not very talented but know how to audition and know how to be… — Noah Galvin Copy Share Image
