When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
It's the same kind of preparation you do for something like this you do for anything. It doesn't matter if it's a… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something… — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I could have been insecure in 'Yamla Pagla'... if I wanted to be. With three actors who are amazing beyond belief and… — Kriti Kharbanda Copy Share Image
I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
When I first decided to take off the tap shoes and concentrate on theatre directing, Dominic Dromgoole got in touch to ask… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
Robert De Niro inspires me as a young actor; even at that age and even with that success you have to come… — Victor Rasuk Copy Share Image
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with… — Richard Stanley Copy Share Image
I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a 125-page script for… — Julie Warner Copy Share Image
On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry -… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say,… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Being a stunt girl is very much my comfort zone, so I had to remove the comfort zone to step fully into… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Being an actor is fantastic because you get to live your dreams and all of that, but I always think it's slightly… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
“In Shubert Alley that night, I had unwittingly reached the threshold of an entire landscape of alleys that would lead to a… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've… — Callum Keith Rennie Copy Share Image
All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a… — Erich Hoyt Copy Share Image
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself,… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
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