Actors Quote by David Mamet

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

— Mahira Khan

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.

— Mia Goth

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and…

— Paul Schrader

As an actor, one is always looking at doing interesting things... meatier roles... stories that turn out exactly the way on screen like when…

— Neha Sharma

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what…

— Constantin Stanislavski

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

— Dervla Kirwan