Acting Quote by Mike White

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating…

— Tamzin Merchant

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my…

— Kirsten Vangsness

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I…

— Sarah Pinborough

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew…

— Jake M. Johnson

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted…

— Marielle Heller

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write…

— Charles Martin Smith