Actors Quote by Jake M. Johnson

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets…

— John Hawkes

Sometimes you have as an actor an inner feeling of something that's really right and you want to do it, almost like you need…

— Shira Haas

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

— Abi Morgan

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're…

— Tony Gilroy

It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play,…

— Neil LaBute

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

— Tama Janowitz

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have…

— Conan Stevens

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own…

— Jihae

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

— Dan Futterman

I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected…

— Hugh Dancy