Acting Quote by Meital Dohan

“Creation, whether it's writing, painting or whatever, is essentially despotic and autocratic in nature, because it's the work of one mind and one mind…

— Philip Pullman

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

“I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some…

— Jonathan Culver

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

— Hill Harper

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm…

— Sheila Heti

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

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable.…

— Moss Hart

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as…

— Anders Holm

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

In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into the creative…

— James Franco

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down…

— Dan Castellaneta

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and…

— Nelsan Ellis