What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with…

— Jimmy Smits

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that…

— Edward Norton

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

— Holland Roden

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or…

— Imtiaz Ali

What I feel is great acting might be rubbish for another filmmaker. There is no right or wrong way to do it. It all…

— Mani Ratnam

For me, once you do a job as an actor then it's the director, producer and editor's job to decide what is best for…

— Jackky Bhagnani

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

— Jason Alexander

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

— Mohanlal

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach…

— Dick Powell

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow…

— Manisha Koirala

I never thought that one day I become an actor and a director likewise I never thought that one day Narendra Modi would become…

— Manoj Kumar

No one works with an actor or a director for friendship.

— Govinda

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

— Edmund White