When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was…

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write…

— Salman Rushdie

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you…

— Ewan McGregor

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back…

— Jay Roach

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but…

— Dave Barry

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

— Charlotte Rampling

When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We…

— Lance Reddick

Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something…

— Mike Leigh

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do…

— David Gandy

I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good…

— Wesley Snipes

One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same time let…

— James Wan

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in…

— Vincent Piazza

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

— Ross Lynch

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always…

— John Travolta

We're going to have a generation of kids whose norm will be people just being addicted to their phones. And that's what scares me.…

— J. J. Redick

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

— Aisling Bea