Actors Quote by Zoe Kazan

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what…

— Gillian Jacobs

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're…

— Jonah Hill

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't give you…

— Ashton Kutcher

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries…

— David Zayas

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's…

— Paddy Considine

As an actor, I can only do my job well, but in a movie there are a lot of other things that matter too…

— Kunal Khemu

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these…

— Tom Stoppard

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you…

— Eric Balfour

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to…

— Diego Luna