Acting Quote by Jackie Cooper

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent…

— Anthony Geary

What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of…

— Ethan Hawke

I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.

— Bill Kaulitz

A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really…

— Andie MacDowell

I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know…

— Matt Dillon

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do…

— Werner Klemperer

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

— Jon Cryer

There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of…

— Lucas Neff

When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do…

— Kevin McHale

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta…

— Kevin Connolly

I've produced things myself, I was like telling the producers how to do the show. They really didn't appreciate that, they just wanted a…

— Dee Snider