Actors Quote by Hugh Jackman

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous…

— James Purefoy

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the tradition and…

— Andy Serkis

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

— Bruce Davison

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

— Laura Benanti

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not…

— Laura Benanti

I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think a lot…

— Jerry Ferrara

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore…

— David Suchet

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

— Simon McBurney

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still…

— Christopher Walken

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was…

— Jack Nicholson