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

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

I am an actor who gets into a role only when the director says 'action' and gets out of it with 'cut.'

— Mahesh Manjrekar

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

If you walk a guy, you have zero chance of getting him out.

— Max Fried

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

— Ted Kotcheff

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be…

— Jackie Chan

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

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time…

— Brian J. White

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'.…

— Cameron Crowe

When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see.…

— Adeel Akhtar

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

— James Callis

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

— James Callis

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

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

— Julie Andrews