Actor Quote by Ellen Burstyn

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

— Xavier Dolan

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot…

— Ansel Elgort

When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is.…

— Charlotte Rampling

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries…

— David Zayas

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working…

— Jessica Lange

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to…

— Edward Burns

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to…

— Diego Luna

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

— Famke Janssen

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin