Acting Quote by Jello Biafra

I still see acting, writing and directing as the same impulse: How can you help each story to the best of your ability?

— Fred Hechinger

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied…

— Quentin Tarantino

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen…

— Greta Gerwig

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite…

— Alan Rickman

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You…

— Sam Levinson

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

— Evangeline Lilly

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try…

— Ben Kingsley

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

— George MacKay

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of…

— Rebecca Miller