Actors Quote by Shelley Winters

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or…

— Jeff Daniels

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting…

— Steve Coogan

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching…

— Jonathan Groff

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie,…

— Geena Davis

Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don't feel that anything you do makes any difference. They're just…

— Mark Rylance

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress,…

— Kevin Spacey

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're…

— Tatiana Maslany

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first…

— Rich Sommer

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts…

— Alan Rickman

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy