'Blackbird' is the only one I've ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
I forget who said it, but someone said, your job as an actor is to communicate the most honest version of this… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know… — Lee Grant Copy Share Image
As an actor, having to portray a real-life person of extreme talent is fine as long as you're not playing the part… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, but it sort of has to feel serious on a different level. I have to be happy with the… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“Yes, it really knocked my confidence. I was really young when I went in, and I really wanted to please. I don’t… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together...… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
The men who go out the scientists who go out, they have so much fun on the way that when they get… — Joan Littlewood Copy Share Image
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I wasn't working much. So I focused on studying, and I really learned what it means to be an actor. And here… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains… — Melinda Clarke Copy Share Image
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to… — Sonu Sood Copy Share Image
I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
Romance-comedy films usually get led by the main actor and main actress, just the two of them. Indeed, I was not sure… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
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