I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role.… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me… — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
Doing three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there's a switch in your brain that censors… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I'm at the top, top, top of my game now. I'm so happy to be on that stage, I'm in control of… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
My theater professor once said to me 'Leslie, you are capable of genuine artistry but you're the laziest actor I know. And… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going… — George Newbern Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school,… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people,… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as… — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
Let's face it. I'm not a personality or the handsome actor type. When you have those God-given assets, you don't have to… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
