Actors Quote by Jaco Van Dormael

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to…

— William Monahan

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and…

— Dustin Hoffman

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think…

— Ewan McGregor

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.

— Dee Rees

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

— Sylvester Stallone

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be…

— John Francis Daley

As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an…

— John Francis Daley

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good…

— Kenya Barris

When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can…

— Maren Ade

I think acting, oftentimes it's not about lines, it's about spaces in between lines and expressions on people's faces and their relationships. You can…

— Peter Capaldi

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

— Jennifer Westfeldt