Acting Quote by Ed Asner

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what…

— Martin Freeman

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.

— Hong Chau

Sometimes, as an actor, you'll get to do work that's purely entertainment, and that's great.

— Adrian Lester

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

— Billy Crudup

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

— Laura Linney

Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

— Katey Sagal

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

— Christopher Abbott

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

— Dirk Benedict

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps…

— Abbas Kiarostami

It's a different kind of acting, this 'Law & Order' thing. They want two partners who can play off each other well and are…

— Jeremy Sisto

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

— Vera Farmiga