Actors Quote by Kevin Spacey

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than…

— Mark Rylance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one…

— Lajos Egri

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

— Bette Davis

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I…

— Nilo Cruz

“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of…

— Alfred Jarry

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the…

— Cary Fukunaga

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for…

— Caridad Svich

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout

I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui