Actor Quote by David Antin

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.

— Kay Cannon

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

— Henry Czerny

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I…

— Wallace Shawn

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became…

— Barry Levinson

In the beginning, I was very stubborn and always wanted to be just an actor. I was told by a lot of people to…

— Kalki Koechlin

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

— Cherry Jones

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

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names.…

— Debra Dean

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make…

— James D'arcy

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

— Anthony Hopkins