“That's the thing about stage: It's not for the faint of heart. You don't have a director yelling, 'Cut!'”— Amy Adams
“Acting is a great job. I'm not complaining. But it's also a very strange job. You're never really in control.”— Casey Affleck
“The reason I'm a good director is because I've been in front of the camera and I know what directors do to you.”— Jason Alexander
“If you're a woman of a certain age, you're not going to be cast as the romantic lead, so you're going to have to do something else.”— Adrienne Barbeau
“My job is to bring the text to life. The text is the score, the text is the blueprint.”— F. Murray Abraham
“I never went to acting school. I'm a pure instinctual actor. I've always been a people watcher.”— Danny Aiello
“I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.”— John Barrymore