Acting Quote by Rebecca Miller

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of…

— Rebecca Miller

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

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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'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 so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

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

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer.…

— Dirk Benedict

Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people,…

— Jello Biafra

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing today is…

— Martin Landau