I've never been very comfortable as an actor looking out into the audience; I always like to keep my focus on the… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior… — Wes Brown Copy Share Image
“Dimple could see, flush from the endorphins of a great performance, why actors and performers got addicted to this kind of thing.… — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly,… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
I just want to work and be in films that I like, it is so simple. I think from the outside it… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm… — David Rees Copy Share Image
Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
That was a bizarre and unlikely event, which has misled a generation of drama students from my old drama school that dreams… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies,… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I come from the world of theater, and I know Noel Coward's writing well. He has such a specific voice, and was… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend… — Nick Mancuso Copy Share Image
You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
I've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy,… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're just trying to get work in any medium. I remember when I started out, I did motion capture… — Sarah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
