Actors Quote by Joan Fontaine

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

— Anton Chekhov

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing…

— Alistair Beaton

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to…

— Sid Haig

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the…

— Himani Shivpuri

“He told me that he thinks he and the other proven directors have a responsibility to be teachers—that this should be a central part…

— Ed Catmull

Before entering into small screen or even films, every actor should do theatre first, as it is the best teacher of acting in its…

— Rohini Hattangadi

Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as…

— Stephen Daldry

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly.…

— Clive Owen

I had the best teacher in the business. Kevin Costner was my teacher. I was acting opposite him and he was directing me. The…

— Olivia Williams

I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just have to…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

— Fanny Brice