Actors Quote by Doug Liman

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up…

— Andrew Dominik

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

— Lorene Scafaria

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it…

— Christopher McQuarrie

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

— Rebecca Miller

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents…

— Navid Negahban

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

— Brandon T. Jackson

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

— George Saunders

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

— Neeraj Kabi