Acting Quote by Parker Posey

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

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper…

— Meital Dohan

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the…

— Edward Albee

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to…

— Trevor Nunn

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite…

— Alan Rickman

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

— Sylvester Stallone

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines.…

— Angela Lansbury

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

— Tommy Mottola

Writing is like acting on stage because when you write you have to make sure that your readers or audiences will really be entertained…

— Christine Mae Sajo Gallego

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away…

— Richard Jenkins