Acting Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It…

— Omar Epps

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of…

— Rebecca Miller

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta

If I'm not acting, I'm writing.

— Brett Goldstein

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

— Charlie Hunnam

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that…

— Molly Ringwald

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

— Alice Ripley

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

— Sophie Marceau

What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab…

— Leigh Whannell

Actually, I wish I did nothing but write. Acting takes a lot of heat off of me monetarily but it puts a lot of…

— Sterling Hayden

Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has…

— Robert Sheehan

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck