“So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.” WritingPlayActorsActingSkillsIncrediblesLovelyFascinationDarling Author:Patrick Macnee
“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindCharacterStoriesBigsActingBackgrounds Author:Rose McGowan
“For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.” WritingDifferentActingReviewsCompulsion Author:Aleksa Palladino
“I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.” WritingUseActingCareersRolesVehicle Author:Danny Strong
“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWritingDoeHardPayActingAttentionKnow HowDirectorsMusic IsHarderProfessionHonestlyPay AttentionInstructionLeeches Author:Michael Shannon
“I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.” WritingEnoughWould BeNaturalActingTalentFocusedMoronNatural Talent Author:Jen Kirkman
“For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.” WritingActingRight NowFocusedActing Right Author:Ben Savage
“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.” WritingStuffWaitingHoursCommonActingScriptsTimingImmediacy Author:Lukas Haas
“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.” IfsKnowsFeelsShouldWritingWellsLongTwoHappensWaitingActingCrazyStageMonthsImpatientTwo Months Author:Erland Josephson
“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.” WritingYearsLongHappensWould BeActorsFeltNaturalActingOne DayGravesExtensionsDaft Author:Stephen Fry
“I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.” FeelsWritingSongActingCheatingWriting Songs Author:Ester Dean
“Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.” ThinkingWritingRealJobsTurnsActingCompanyInteriorsReal JobsDecoratingInterior Decorating Author:Ester Dean
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing.” WritingShowsSidesActingBalanceRight NowFindingsExcitingExciting Things Author:Steven Bauer
“Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.” ThinkingWritingHardActingHardest Author:Morgan Freeman
“Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.” WritingFormActingClassMonthsTiredUniversityI RealizedPerformingNarcolepsy Author:William Shatner
“I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.” FeelsWritingYearsTogetherEnjoyActingSkillsMajorityValuableTragicEditingShockingGrownups Author:Charlie Day
“When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.” PeopleWritingWellsActingPaintingDrawingPortraiturePainting And Drawing Author:Antony Sher
“Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?” WritingMadeActorsActing Author:Jonah Hill
“I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingArtWould BeArtistActingInvolvedPerformingArt WorldPerforming ArtsProducing Movies Author:Claudia Lee
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.” IfsWritingYearsYoungThreeActingArmsPeriodsPromiseWeightVictimSevenSettlingMatureJudgedPlatformsUnfortunateRopeSeven YearsYoung WritersHangmanNooses Book:Enemies of Promise Source: Enemies of Promise