I try to add as much as I can before a director says…

I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.

— Kelsey Grammer

“I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned'…

— Harlan Ellison

Kristen is always really good but also clearly speaks her mind. That can be a bit uncomfortable. After we shoot a scene she sometimes…

— Robert Pattinson

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between…

— Robert Duvall

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

— Shahrukh Khan

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one, and the…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the…

— Marilyn Monroe

There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it's the pure satisfaction of doing what you really…

— Joel Basman

When you get confidence from your director, as an actor, it is all a matter of how your director says, 'This is how much…

— Pankaj Kapur

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Very rarely have I worked with a director where we've been at odds. And by the time you've actually talked to somebody and you…

— Julianne Moore

As soon as the director says action, an actor has to do the same work no matter if the screen is small or big.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

— Julie Andrews

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned…

— Angelina Jolie

I love it when a director says, 'I don't know.'

— Richard Jenkins