I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested… — Andrew Buchan Copy Share Image
I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh,… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be… — Jovan Adepo Copy Share Image
Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair,… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wanted to perform and entertain people. Whether it was theatre in school and college, or just dancing on the table in… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who… — Amala Paul Copy Share Image
When you become an actor, at some point you look for something that brings you back to your roots. You find something… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“I remain unenthusiastic about actors. They still couple the producer with the consumer. Yes, one can emulate or implement certain kinds of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see,… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get… — Wendy Raquel Robinson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child.… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not.… — Charles Durning Copy Share Image
As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
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