Acting Quote by Joe Lycett

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't…

— Ray Harryhausen

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do,…

— Julie Christie

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

— William Monahan

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors.…

— Spencer Tracy

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director…

— Jackie Cooper

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

— Jane Fonda

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything,…

— Eric Balfour

When I was acting, I did not have any directorial plans in my mind then. But I did not enjoy acting as much as…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it,…

— David Labrava

Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I…

— James Franco