Actors Quote by William Monahan Download Open image “You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.” — William Monahan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Character Made Theatre Writing
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 Copy Share Image
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them. — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own. — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [mind] and here [heart] and what you decide to do every day… — William Monahan Copy Share
When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America as a nation coincided with the Romantic era and I've always been thoroughly into the Romantics and I've always been thoroughly into America, particularly at the time when it was a brand new idea, when it… — William Monahan Copy Share
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that… — William Monahan Copy Share
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.… — Monica Potter Copy Share
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
