Actor Quote by James Nesbitt

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and…

— Denis Leary

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's…

— Adam Croasdell

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to…

— Sreenivasan

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for…

— Meryl Streep

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession…

— Martin McDonagh

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex…

— Alex Kapranos

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam