Actors Quote by Scott Foley

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

— Travis Fimmel

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

— Kurt Sutter

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately,…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how…

— Scott Michael Foster

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often…

— James Cromwell

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and…

— Dustin Hoffman

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the…

— Zooey Deschanel

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like…

— Lynn Shelton

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse…

— Mark Duplass

As an actor, the last thing you ever want to end up on is just a procedural show where you're just a talking head.…

— Laz Alonso