Acting Quote by Martin Landau

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

— Evangeline Lilly

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen…

— Greta Gerwig

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and…

— Finn Wittrock

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

— Roger Avary

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that…

— Molly Ringwald

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

— Kate Morton

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful…

— Anjelica Huston

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

— Lauren Bacall

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that…

— Danny Strong