Susan Strasberg Quote

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that i...
HARRIET WALTER

I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and...
MADS MIKKELSEN

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play...
GAVIN MACLEOD

Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank ...
JOHN GREEN

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I neve...
JESSICA WHITE

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to t...
JESSE LIVERMORE

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
ALFRED MOLINA

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and w...
CRAIG HELLER

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my...
CAMRYN MANHEIM

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I'...
VALERIA GOLINO

Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that...
ROMAN REIGNS

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't i...
GEEZER BUTLER

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho...
MARA WILSON

I am totally shocked. My wife (Patti) and I were talking earlier and we were sitting here crying. It...
BILL WALKER

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors...
ELLEN BARKIN

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.
CASEY STENGEL

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.
GORDON PARKS

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played ...
STEVE MARTIN

After a hard days work, it's nice to go back to the trailer and see him [her cat] sitting there wait...
CAMERON DIAZ

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't pa...
ANGELA CARTER

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I me...
JOSH GAD

I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,&...
ZACK SNYDER

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
SARAH SNOOK

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother fo...
RYAN REYNOLDS

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever ...
TAMAR BRAXTON

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.
JESS WALTER

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25...
BRUCE CAMPBELL

The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai...
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P.

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't re...
ALEX GRAVES

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An...
KATE MICUCCI

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER

I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came ...
ELLIE KENDRICK

We first played against each other when were about 8 years old. We've become good friends, and when ...
JEFF LANG

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting...
RITCHIE BLACKMORE

It was amazing for me to play a character opposite Benedict Cumberbatch - he's someone who I'...
TOM HOLLAND

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me t...
TESS GERRITSEN

I went after him because [the rest of the team] had left, and I was just sitting in the parking lot ...
DAINIUS ZUBRUS

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thir...
LEVEN RAMBIN

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me...
ARTHUR MILLER

I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'l...
DAKOTA GOYO

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more...
DANA HILL

I've been sitting waiting the whole year. Since ninth grade I wondered what I'd do after high school...
ADRIAN HULL

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved...
AMY ADAMS

Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite su...
JOYCE DEWITT

It kind of made me realize that catching wasn't just about sitting back there and having fun. Ever s...
JAY FREED

It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a w...
ADELAIDE KANE

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying...
LUCY LAWLESS

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.
DR. PETER TSOU

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
KIRSTEN DUNST

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as ...
JASON PRIESTLEY

I think it's good for our city. I didn't know until somebody told me (that the two schools hadn't pl...
DAVE POOLE

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green...
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was...
ROBERT CARLYLE

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the ho...
JOHN KATZMAN

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite...
PATRICK DUFFY

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's f...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

Austin has been in the business about 18 years and he was on top for four. I wrestled main events fo...
STEVE WILLIAMS

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the busines...
CHARLIE DANIELS

Generation X people would somehow track me down and want to know about him, ... I remember he had to...
ELLIS AMBURN

It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on h...
TYCONIS D. ALLISON TY

You never really think about what happens after the Olympics - you're just like, 'I want to ...
MCKAYLA MARONEY

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a cam...
ERNEST BORGNINE

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone...
SARAH DESSEN

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could ...
KERI RUSSELL

I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me...
DANIEL BOULUD

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j...
JA RULE

I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown...
CECE PENISTON

One thing that was really dope for me was that my dad had a '78 Corvette, '78 or '76 Cor...
SEVYN STREETER

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent...
KRISTEN STEWART

I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me ...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting mys...
BILL BURR

I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is ...
STEFAN LEFORS

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world ...
MONICA KEENA

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to c...
COREY FELDMAN

I was actually running down the court and thought he was going to pass it to me for the dunk. I was ...
BRAYDEN BILLBE

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for t...
CANELO ALVAREZ

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppi...
JULIE ANDREWS

I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings'...
EVAN GOLDBERG

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be crea...
DR. DRE

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are dif...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I...
LAURA RAMSEY

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. ...
SONAKSHI SINHA

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed m...
VICTOR ORTIZ

What was the problem? I honestly don't know. It was never explained to me. I don't think after 21 ye...
BOB SCHULER

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountain...
A. J. BUCKLEY

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot a...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I was just getting after it, I guess. Coach told me to get fired up in the huddle. I came out and ju...
JASON COCKRELL

'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of mo...
RACHAEL TAYLOR

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized...
WILLIE AAMES

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that rea...
TAYLOR DANE

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to c...
KEVIN DURAND

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
TAYE DIGGS

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

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It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

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