My idea of acting was working in the theater. So I am very grateful for all my jobs. I know that at… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial… — Hart Bochner Copy Share Image
The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for… — Frank Audrain Copy Share Image
I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I think as film actors we are comfortable on stage because we know what the audience expects. The only tricky part is… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater… — Omar Zuniga Copy Share Image
I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
A lot of my actor friends say 'You know what? If I ever come back in another life I'm coming back as… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your… — Chris Sarandon Copy Share Image
I definitely have a stage persona now that is sort of this confident, delusional performer who is brave enough to tell someone… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I got really bored of sitting around waiting for work or for the next movie to come along that only 100 people… — Emily Atack Copy Share Image
If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
As much as I like being part of commercial films that give me visibility with a wide audience, and love being the… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Children from high-drama households often grow up with the idea that tension is an integral part of love. Therefore, the girl who… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
I don't like doing what I've already done. But there's a lot of different kinds of characters that I'd like to play.… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing… — Deepika Padukone Copy Share Image
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
