Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Chadwick

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Al Pacino

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Chita Rivera

Theatre is immediate gratification

David McCullough

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Charley Pride

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time.

Alan Parker

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Alan Arkin

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Chris Burke

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Chloe Grace Moretz

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

Cheyenne Jackson

The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

Paul Lewis

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Charles Bronson

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Chad Lowe

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.