“I wasn’t pursuing television. I wanted to be onstage. And I was very lucky there. But my career’s unfolding . . . exactly as it’s supposed to.” – Sutton Foster
“It’s just that it’s a grind. To try for that to be your primary career, especially for women, it’s a bit of a grind.” – Rashida Jones on Acting
O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, along with Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray, talk about the film, the influence of N.W.A., and being new stars in Hollywood.
“I never, ever wanted to be an actor.” – Ray Liotta
“A lot of times, this town, or this business, really only looks at your last three projects.” – Jennifer Jason Leigh
“Developing a character is the only thing in the world I feel 100 percent confident in, that I understand.” – Jennifer Lawrence
“You know, we did work hard and this one had become a long process. There was a read-through, a long rehearsal period, and then you do the thing” – Kurt Russell on The Hateful Eight
“No one woke up a year ago and said, ‘We have to give Alex Brightman this job. We have to keep remembering that we chose to be here.
“The rumor is that I ‘turned down Star Wars,’ and I didn’t turn down Star Wars. But that’s the fun history of that” – Kurt Russell
“We had months of rehearsal beforehand, but every day was like doing a play” – Leonardo DiCaprio on shooting ‘The Revenant’
“I don’t think so much about whether I’m playing a strong person or not – it’s not that the character needs to be loud or straightforward” – Alicia Vikander
“I would go to five different workshops a week, spending every nickel I had, trying to be just decent at this side of the camera” – James Brolin
Ashford points out that since she plays a dog she has had a creative response to phones going off in the theater.
“I wanted the part so badly — I’ve wanted to be in a Tarantino movie forever — and needed to give it my all, but it was quite a task set before me, and I was nervous.” – Jennifer Jason Leigh
“I saw that I was being stereotyped. I saw that a lot of us were being stereotyped. I didn’t want to be part of that” – Regina King
“Before Orange is the New Black, a year out of school, I was struggling to get a theater job.” – Danielle Brooks
“I rang up my agent and I said, ‘Just get me a self- tape. Please let me send something so that they can see me.” – Tom Holland
“I was scared stiff, and we began the makeup and they did the hair, and I remember Maura just appearing on my face” – Jeffrey Tambor on ‘Transparent’
“It’s such a theatrical character, which makes it a great fit for the theater. I don’t know what I would have even done in an audition room” – Laurie Metcalf
Straight from the Jim Henson vaults, you can check out a clip of Jennifer Connelly’s audition for the cult favorite movie.
