Actor Quote by T. R. Knight

Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it's a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it's a big…

— Jason Priestley

Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in…

— John Patrick Shanley

Actors like to know who they are playing, what they are thinking, feeling, meaning, intending at any one time.

— Sean Mathias

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

— Sterling K. Brown

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

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting…

— Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of…

— Helen Mirren

As it is with a play, so it is with life, what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it…

— Anonymous

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

— Stephen Collins

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job,…

— Brian d'Arcy James

As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a…

— Melissa Ponzio