Acting Quote by Michael Shannon

I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened…

— Luke Kirby

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

— Cillian Murphy

We've all had that moment, the first time you're exposed to live theater, and it's shocking in the best possible way. You see something…

— Joshua Jackson

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

— Charlie Heaton

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

— Jim Sarbh

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day,…

— Rick Hoffman

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while,…

— Jeffrey Wright

I always grew up around acting. I did commercials as a kid and all that kind of stuff and my oldest brother did theatre…

— Patrick Wilson

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a…

— Jack Black

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start…

— Frances Fisher

Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to…

— Cillian Murphy

Theatre is something that keeps me very alert, and I am actively creating whether I am on stage or directing. In films, I feel…

— Kalki Koechlin