Ego Quote by Michael Palin

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me,…

— Noomi Rapace

The role has to excite me as an actor. It is like a train journey: you know where you have to reach, and all…

— Nana Patekar

I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role…

— Lou Dobbs

With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very…

— Sam Shepard

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow…

— Carrie Coon

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I've always been interested in directing, writing, and producing, so when I went behind the scenes, it was like a whole new world that…

— Marsai Martin

Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's…

— Viola Davis

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

— Robin Wright

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

— Robert Kazinsky

For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the…

— Julia Ormond

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo…

— Melanie Lynskey