There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“That’s the life. That’s why talent alone doesn’t cut it. If you want to be a successful actor, mental toughness is essential.… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
The main key for me is to always find the truth of the character, and to find where that is and stay… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Direction is closest to my heart. I may run out of work as an actor as I get older, but I can… — Rakshit Shetty Copy Share Image
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers.… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I think it's a great thing that women went out in droves to see Sex and the City movie. I think it's… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I can't suddenly say that because I am acting opposite Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, and Varun Dhawan... I should get the same… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
I think that almost every scene was an exploration - it was never going to be just what’s on the page. So… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
It's very much a character-based play. Conor's writing is almost musical and paints pictures at the same time. It's a joy as… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school.… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
![“[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/laurence-olivier-11163_actors_on-whether-he-harbored-any-resentment-at_368719.png)
![“I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and I tagged along and was doing some local modeling and commercials and things like that. A woman named Jane Oliver, who handled Sylvester Stallone, saw Chris at the theater and…” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/susan-sarandon-2799_auditions_i-married-him-chris-sarandon-my-senior-y_2834141.jpg)
![“[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c03/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_actors_on-bbc-s-sherlock-it-s-a-rare-challenge_2442916.jpg)
