Actor Quote by Sam Shepard

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors…

— Lee Hall

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

— Amanda Bearse

Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree…

— Clint Eastwood

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

Every actor just wants good writing.

— Jeff Daniels

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

— Anita Loos

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

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 really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to…

— Carlton Cuse

As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at…

— Harold Ramis

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne