Actor Quote by Peter Brook

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against…

— Ethan Hawke

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of…

— Jaco Van Dormael

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

— Patsy Rodenburg

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the…

— Nicolas Cage

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

— Ethan Coen

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you…

— Richard Kind

I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language,…

— Isabelle Huppert

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I…

— Jessica Lange