Acting Quote by Linda Hunt

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding…

— Nicole Holofcener

It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and…

— Liv Ullmann

I haven't got the capability or the patience. As a director, you need to be very good with people's personalities and be able to…

— Jason Statham

I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then. I just…

— Marianne Elliott

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

— Alante Kavaite

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a…

— Mira Nair

I didn't know that I could act, but my friend told me, 'Before you do directing, maybe you should try acting. It would be…

— Choi Woo-shik

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every…

— Agnes Bruckner

I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

— Donna Langley

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or…

— Ida Lupino

I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find out you're…

— Jodie Foster