Actors Quote by Mark Burnett

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean…

— Luke Wilson

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

— Ralph Richardson

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I…

— Judy Davis

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than…

— Mark Rylance

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin

In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to…

— Ray Fearon

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of…

— Trey Anastasio

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen