Actors Quote by Joe Johnston

I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if…

— Scott Michael Foster

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

— Neeraj Kabi

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor…

— Christoph Waltz

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit,…

— Idris Elba

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to…

— Jessica Alba

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is their job…

— Sam Esmail

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

— Natascha McElhone

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

The actor's always as good as the stories are. And so many important things, there is the light, there is the costumes, the makeup,…

— Udo Kier