I am an actor who gets into a role only when the director…

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

— Kelsey Grammer

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

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'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

This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons.…

— John Green

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

— John Green

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious…

— Jens Lekman

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

— Alison Elliott

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

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