Acting Quote by Tom Berenger

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see…

— Neil Jordan

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've…

— Neil Jordan

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on…

— Judy Davis

I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes.…

— Charles Busch

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was…

— Gene Hackman

Sometimes you read the script and you feel that this is a challenging role but at times you feel that this one was written…

— Rasika Dugal

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

I used to do so much writing and fill my scripts with thoughts and monologues and ideas.

— Melissa Barrera