Actor Quote by Tom Stoppard Download Open image “If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.” — Tom Stoppard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actor Being Know Rest Said Theatre Wasted Work You
A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all… — Edoardo Ponti Copy Share Image
As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
What a good actor brings to a script is something, sometimes, even directors can't imagine. The director should always have the last say though. — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it. — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit. — Steven Knight Copy Share
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors. — John Benjamin Hickey Copy Share Image
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it. — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think… — James Hong Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
