There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Doing 'Not Going Out' has been fantastic and it's a great job, but it is different because you turn up and you're… — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Most good actors you work with, they actually bring something to the creative process and to the script. They help shape the… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
We were shooting at the Kodak Theatre and to see my production company's clap board in front of Sylvester Stallone was overwhelming,… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying… — Tyler Beede Copy Share Image
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own;… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in… — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Hits, flops, and everything in between - I got to do a lot of different things as an actor, had a lot… — Anita Hassanandani Reddy Copy Share Image
