Acting Quote by Rebecca Miller

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

— Karl Kraus

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'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how…

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

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 think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

— Sophie Marceau

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that.…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

— Meital Dohan

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

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

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