Actor Quote by Cherry Jones

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written.…

— David Antin

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support…

— Tony Kushner

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be…

— Stephen Karam

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when…

— Cillian Murphy

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

— Sam Shepard

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to…

— Nia Vardalos