Actor Quote by Peter O'Toole

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

— Neeraj Kabi

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler

I think there's all these unknown things you can tap into when you just leave things open, and nothing is forbidden. Then you allow…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

— Michel Hazanavicius

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

— Alphonse Karr

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that…

— Ray Walston

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

— Julia Barr

As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.

— John Bishop