Acting Quote by Meital Dohan

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any…

— Christopher Walken

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

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

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

— Lake Bell

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

— Quentin Tarantino

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play,…

— Guy Pearce

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down,…

— Terry Pratchett

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep…

— Sophie Okonedo

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio