“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.” YearsFirstsJobsActorsFiveBecomingMovedCoffeeBunchFive YearsShopsLos AngelesCoveringGreat FriendCoffee ShopBest ExperiencesBecoming Great Author:Katie Leclerc
“The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.” FirstsActorsHorseRidingCowboy Author:Richard O'Brien
“The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.” FeelsWritingFirstsPlayActionMovingActorsDirectorsBonesRehearsalSkeletons Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.” FirstsPassionActorsFirst LoveLove And Passion Author:Lou Diamond Phillips
“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.” FirstsWellsWantedActorsSawsSingersPainterArabiaCarpenterLawrence Of Arabia Author:Michael Pitt
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.” ThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsIdeasActorsLaughingPretentiousHave A Laugh Author:Rosamund Pike
“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.” WorldFirstsArtistActorsFashionMetsMusicianCampaignsIgnorantTrickySportsmanBurberry Author:Eddie Redmayne
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.” FirstsBelieveHumansActorsHappeningsFirst TimeJazz Author:Tom Sizemore
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.” FirstsActorsCareersStartingAccustomed Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.” FirstsWarActorsSpeakHollywoodOppositionVietnamVietnam WarSpeaks Out Author:Robert Vaughn
“Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.” FirstsRememberActorsFeltDoorsMissingArmsTrailersAmberGleeGreat ExperiencesOpen ArmsLike Family Author:NeNe Leakes
“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.” IfsFirstsTwoActorsSceneOkayTreatsCamerasRehearsal Author:Alfred Molina
“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.” ThinkingFirstsWould BeJobsMovingActorsFoundFatherLeftHalfStupidAmountWaiter Author:Alfred Molina
“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.” FirstsActorsDealsCareersWeight Author:Sara Rue
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.” FirstsSchoolActorsCompanyNeededTheaterExpandingNew Company Author:Charles Kimbrough
“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.” WantFirstsLittlesTwoCharacterNightActorsPrayerLaughingFiveMinutesStageDemandStartingStakesBroadwayFive MinutesExitStarting Out Author:Charles Kimbrough
“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.” KnowsMenFirstsSometimesDoneJobsChoicesActorsGamesDirectorsFirst TimeJadedUgh Author:Jake M. Johnson
“Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.” FirstsActorsLanguageStreetsExpressionDancerPerformersMimeStreet Performers Author:Denis Lavant
“Actors were the first people to accept me.” PeopleFirstsActorsAcceptingAccept Me Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'” PeopleFeelsFirstsHumansPersonsBookCharacterGirlReadingActorsRealizingHoursAbilityWhiteEmpathyScriptsAgentsMovieMikeDualityCreepyRight PersonBooks And ReadingGood GirlWrong Person Author:Jennifer Aniston
“But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.” KnowsFirstsMeanActorsSidesGratefulVideoMovieVisualsComponentsCousinDepartureMy CousinAudio Author:Jerry Garcia
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.” YearsFirstsDoneWantedActorsLanguageTermActingUniversityItalianAcademicExamForeign Language Author:Nick Offerman
“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."” PeopleWantFirstsKindSaidBigsActorsRootsLawyerBunchAgentsManagersFancyJust Being Author:Matthew Lillard
“As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.” FeelsFirstsIdeasActorsLike YouCapableFirst TimeNo Idea Author:Brit Marling
“Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.” FirstsActorsNamesIndependentJustifyFinancing Author:Steven Shainberg
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab