Actor Quote by Michael Keaton

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves,…

— Grace Jones

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live.…

— Stephen Sondheim

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit,…

— Idris Elba

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to…

— Jen McGowan

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance…

— Christopher Nolan

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of…

— Sean Penn

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

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

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.

— Taeyang