Actor Quote by Brian Greene

Writing is like acting on stage because when you write you have to make sure that your readers or audiences will really be entertained…

— Christine Mae Sajo Gallego

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act,…

— Paul Muni

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

— William Monahan

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write…

— Michael Haneke

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful…

— Anjelica Huston

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for…

— Sam Shepard