Actors Quote by Laurence Olivier

The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries…

— Martin Landau

I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience…

— Maureen Stapleton

A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get it right.

— Prunella Scales

An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

— Michael Horse

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

— Fiona Shaw

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the…

— Johnny Depp

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked…

— Denzel Washington

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which…

— Amy Landecker

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you…

— Steven Knight

I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing…

— Gillian Anderson

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

— Katharine Hepburn

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night…

— Austin Peck