Actors Quote by Charlize Theron

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good…

— Kenya Barris

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going…

— John Francis Daley

As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an…

— John Francis Daley

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I…

— Joel Edgerton

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can…

— Mary Steenburgen

It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the…

— Masiela Lusha

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people…

— Stephen Dorff

Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them…

— Joe Russo

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis