I learn more about how to run a set teaching six-year-olds. You go into a classroom as a teacher, and the most… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image
You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
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I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So… — Nancy Allen Copy Share Image
Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair,… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I was a really shy, scared kid. I was really, really anxious to go on stage for the first five years that… — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by… — Chris Elliott Copy Share Image
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about - as… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning… — Diogo Morgado Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
I think on a stage in front of thousands of people is a wildly invigorating and amazing experience, and it requires a… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
A theater in Berlin asked me if I wanted to do a theater production. Right away I said I wanted to do… — Peaches Copy Share Image
I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so… — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would love to do stuff on camera. That's what I want to do. It took me a really long time to… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
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