“I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.” PeopleNextActorsLove YouOne DayMajoritySensitiveSpontaneousNext Day Author:Ellen Muth
“Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.” ShowsRunningActorsComedyDramaSceneOne DayLowsPerformancesTragedyFarce Author:Dick Cavett
“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.” WritingYearsLongHappensWould BeActorsFeltNaturalActingOne DayGravesExtensionsDaft Author:Stephen Fry
“I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.” YearsPlayRememberActorsWaitingSawsOne DayLeavingTheatrePeterGodotWaiting For Godot Author:Patrick Stewart
“I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. I just thought, "Well, maybe I'll do it one day just for the hell of it and see if it works."” IfsWritingWellsIdeasJobsActorsFunHellMinesBecomingOne DayAmbition Author:Glenn Howerton
“When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.” ThinkingTwoRememberFilmYoungActorsOne DayTitlesTwo DaysLead InYoung Actors Author:Michael Caine
“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.” KnowsShouldSaidFactsTodayActorsDifficultWonderIdentityOne DayShould HaveTheatreBeing YourselfRealisingDifficult ThingsWorkshopsJust Be Yourself Author:George Ogilvie
“Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.” ThinkingActorsOpportunityOne DayLuckyDirectorsSo Lucky Author:Marion Cotillard
“I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.” ShowsActorsHoursChallengesOne DayAdmirationOperaSoapSoap Operas Author:Catherine Mary Stewart
“A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.” KindArtFormActorsIndividualPowerfulStageOne DayMouthsTheaterRevealingTransparentGood Actors Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.” IfsKnowsTryingDifferentTogetherFilmNextActorsRoomsLaughingOne DayTheaterReactionsShootingImpressRehearsalCompetitiveness Author:Israel Horovitz
“In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.” IfsWantI CanRealityActionFilmFacesGuyFightingActorsFunActingWatchesAudienceOne DayProveResearchJetOther GuysHmmmFun Movie Author:Jet Li
“When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.” WorldMadeSaidTodayActorsLostSpeakLanguageLinesRoomsTalkingMinutesOne DayConversationOfficeDecidedGreenPressesRanUnbelievableOnly TimeUpstairsForeign LanguageSpeak EnglishLost TimeGruntUnbelievable Things Author:Jack P. Shepherd
“Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.” I CanDoneActorsCan DoOne DayPhilosopherDelegatesBards Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.” MeanDoeSaidGuyActorsFoundOpportunityNamesMemoriesPowerfulTakenWonderfulPoetOne DayGrantedEmbeddedTaken For GrantedDead Poets SocietyDead Poets Author:Ethan Hawke
“I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be an actor!" My mom and I would always read story books out loud together and I loved doing character voices and playing with my voice.” WantSaidBookCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsVoiceMomOne DayMy MomLoudThought Of The DayStory Book Author:Atticus Shaffer
“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.” PeopleNeedsRealNextActorsGoneOne DayRealisingFleetingHappiness And SuccessReal HappinessFleeting Moments Author:Chuck Norris
“I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.” WantHomeAbleActorsLostGrowsLosesRolesWorryForeverOne DayHopefullyScareBack Home Author:Jill Scott
“I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.” ThinkingPlayActorsGrewOne DayGrew UpExpecting Author:Wallace Shawn
“Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.” HomeDiesActorsOne DayKneesScreamMechanicChokeSkullsMelodramaRosencrantz And Guildenstern Book:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead