Actors Quote by Eric Balfour

What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming…

— Angelina Jolie

When I turned director, I enjoyed the challenge of making an actor perform to his best.

— Nizhalgal Ravi

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it,…

— David Labrava

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

— Joe Lycett

I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be…

— Sarah Polley

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day…

— Misha Collins

The strange thing about directing, for me, was that opportunities arose; I'd had some nice roles as an actor, but it just never happened…

— Sean Mathias

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

— Sondra Locke

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much…

— Misha Collins

The act of directing myself as an actor, deciding where my body went, and then everyone in the crew and cast supporting that decision…

— Eva Victor