“I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.” WayDifferentActorsFantasyHairLet MeDressesLifetimeDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsRepercussions Author:Mae Whitman
“Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.” ThinkingShouldActorsStageDressesBloodyShowers Author:Martin Freeman
“When you're starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksActorsOur LivesJudgingDressesYeahWho You AreStartingHolesGuiltyPigeonsStarting Out Author:Tom Hiddleston
“You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.” IfsThinkingShouldBeautifulPassionActorsStarsDressesMovie StarBeautiful Dress Author:Diane Kruger
“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.” PeopleMenWarCharacterSeemsActorsPerfectStageHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenDressesPhotographCivil WarPerformersUniformsCostumesHandsomePageantBradyStage Actors Author:David McCullough
“I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.” ActorsStuffMinutesDressesMovieTransitionDurationSweepingClearingClearing Out Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed, Transformers: RID, or narrator of “Say Yes To the Dress” (among many other things). AMA!” KnowsMayAmericaActorsVoiceDressesCreedsKnow MeCaptainsRogerAssassinsNarratorsHedgehogsSonic The Hedgehog Author:Roger Craig Smith
“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.” WantedActorsNiceReadySmartDressesSexyBeing NiceBeing Smart Author:Vincent Cassel
“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it's someone else because I'm constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.” LooksActorsFashionFindingsHotDressesSlaveCurrents Author:Ruth E. Carter
“I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in touch with, and learning to not just appreciate, but actually really enjoy being a woman. Because for so long I was a jock, and I was an athlete, and I was a tomboy, and people would joke about like, fancy dress, you should go as a girl.” PeopleThinkingShouldLongGirlActorsEnjoySoundJokesAppreciateDressesAthleteFancyBeing A WomanJocks Author:Zoe Bell
“You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.” LooksActorsPeriodsDressesBunchExtrasTime PeriodsLining Up Author:Boyd Holbrook
“And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.” FirstsImportantCharacterHelpingActorsClothesDressesRoutineClosestCostumes Author:Gary Oldman
“I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.” ChildrenMadeMightActorsImaginationJusticeCareersWorryAliveEmpathyPaidDressesActivismMidnightDollsCornerstonesPaid Off Author:Susan Sarandon
“Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.” IfsWorldChildrenArtBigsActorsStuffHavensPoetDressesGuitarPassingPassingsBrokeFilmmakerDesperateScoreHotelHungTrafficGiftedLaddersPlaywrightEnergeticHustleOutside WorldJunkieVictorianStanleyPassing ThroughBards Author:Patti Smith
“Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.” IdeasSometimesJobsAmericaActorsGamesStarsSidesCollegeDressesIntellectFocusedJustifyProfessorsMovie StarFlipPedestal Author:Julia Stiles