Acting Quote by Stephen Fry

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

— John Wells

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a very scary…

— Sudeep

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to…

— Stephen Root

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

— Sylvester Stallone

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

— Sam Levinson

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel…

— Andrew Haigh

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

— Nick Nolte

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something…

— Marti Noxon

A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live…

— Eric Balfour

Since I started, like, 200 years ago, I've always wanted to direct and write. But I've been so busy - and fortunate and lucky…

— Peter Stormare

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity…

— Tina Fey