Acting Quote by Molly Ringwald

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 started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection…

— Finn Wittrock

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

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in…

— Mike O'Malley

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

— James Garner

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

I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It…

— Omar Epps

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

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came…

— James Franco