Acting Quote by Sydney Pollack

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction,…

— Park Hyung-sik

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

— Jay Baruchel

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

— Noah Centineo

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

— Boris Kodjoe

I was always toying with the idea of acting.

— Vijay Antony

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

— Sondra Locke

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

— Chris Lowell

Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been…

— Marielle Heller

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But…

— James Coburn

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

— Al Pacino

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach