Acting Quote by Dustin Hoffman

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium.…

— Annette Bening

As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but…

— Danny Huston

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the…

— Jon Turteltaub

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes…

— Viola Davis

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

— Robin Wright

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once…

— Alec Baldwin

A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly, and creating…

— Martin Landau

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read…

— Jason Reitman

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

— Adrian Pasdar

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of…

— Sean Penn